DENVER/Aug. 16, 2023 — Morris Animal Foundation and Revive & Restore have jointly announced funding for seven new projects focused on genomic sequencing and biobanking to protect and manage wildlife ...

Kelp forests are valuable and iconic habitats of the central coast of California. Indeed, kelp forests are truly iconic to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and are prominently featured at the ...

The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They're a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, ...

Ashley Kidd signed onto the Zoom call a few minutes late, giddily explaining that 12 minutes ago there was an unexpected development in a planned spawn of critically endangered starfish. Kidd, ...

Keystone species play an outsized role in the ecosystem, affecting the natural balance in ways that cannot easily be replaced.

MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. - Scientists are in a race right now to save underwater kelp forests along much of the California coastline that are being devoured by a species of sea urchin. Researchers say ...

Historical analysis shows that the marine mammals likely kept some of California’s kelp forests growing over the past 100 years. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 23, 2024 12:00 PM EST Get the Popular ...

An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue). Credit: Dula ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. One of the ocean’s greatest supporters of ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine’s rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in ...