In 2021, researchers identified a new species of whale. Now, they are racing against time to save their natural habitat […] ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching.

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

A Florida state senator has filed a bill to make the newly official name "Gulf of America" consistent throughout state statutes.

A woman in Orange Beach, Alabama, wasn’t sure what she saw out at sea from her balcony recently. But she knew one thing: “That sucker’s huge.” Debbie Millay can be heard in video she recorded ...

Calm winds, warmers temps lead to opportunities in Gulf - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

As the rumor goes, an oceanic area off the Western coast of Mexico is a "Jacuzzi of Despair," a pool of oceanic water that kills anything that enters it. A January 2025 Reddit pos ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

A pair of rare and critically endangered whales has journeyed past their usual course, appearing in the Gulf Coast where they ...

According to the January 2025 sargassum update, residents and visitors across the Virgin Islands may soon begin to notice an ...

While red tides and other algal blooms can occur worldwide, Karenia brevis is found almost exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico but also has been found on the east coast of Florida and off the coast of ...