SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The stunning marine sanctuaries that dot the California coast are critical for the continued health of ocean species, areas like the Gulf of the Farallones, Cordell Bank, and ...

The theory of island biogeography is most often studied in the context of oceanic islands where all island inhabitants are descendants from founding events involving migration from mainland source ...

Migration is one of nature's best strategies for survival. Countless species depend on precise timing to align their journey with food availability, breeding options, and perfect weather to raise ...

A joint study by NASA and the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), has used space-based lasers to produce the first global study of the great migration of tiny marine ...

At night, tiny marine animals such as Arctic zooplanktons continue to migrate using the light from the moon, a new study confirms. Moonlight drives the migration of marine animals through permanently ...

Two vast areas of the north Pacific Ocean, one off the west coast of the U.S. and the other between Hawaii and Alaska, have been revealed as marine counterparts of East Africa's Serengeti plain.

Marine life is migrating from the equator to the tropics, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study shows that many species known to ...

A silky shark named Genie traveled from the Galapagos Islands out to the open ocean and back – over 17,000 miles – over the course of a year and a half. This is the longest recorded migration for a ...

Are there plenty more fish in the sea? The question continues to reverberate around most of the world's fishing grounds, but scientific data on the subject can sometimes prove elusive. That's why ...