As a reminder that education is a primary mission of Mote SEA, there are four touch tanks at the aquarium, in which children of all ages can touch the occupants – including cow nose rays, sea urchins, ...

Mote educates upward of 350,000 guests each year and it's expected to double that in the new center, Cooper said. It cost $130 million to build. It took time to make sure the habitats at the new Mote ...

Choosing between freshwater and marine aquariums involves considering maintenance, cost, fish variety, and tank size. Freshwater setups are beginner-friendly and budget-conscious, offering a wide ...

Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium.

It was just another summer day for many high schoolers — but not for three Bergen teens. Mythreya Dharani, DaJeong Won and Jinan Laurentia Woo opened their email inboxes July 29 and learned, to their ...

Renée Wilson, with Audubon Florida, recently provided an update on conservation land funding in Lee and Collier counties.

As Ghost the octopus begins her final chapter, the bond she's built with those around her feels even stronger and more meaningful than ever.

A new dumbo octopus species, Grimpoteuthis feitiana, was accidentally discovered in a scientific blind spot of the deep Pacific Ocean. It carries a name that nods to the flying figures in China’s ...

Yewande Oluwole, 5, and her sister Jadesola, 3, love astronomy and can name every planet—even the dwarf planets. But peering through a refracting telescope at a tree branch on the University of ...

Anthony’s stands majestically at the tip of Point Defiance like a lighthouse for hungry travelers, except instead of warning ships away, it beckons food lovers toward an unforgettable culinary ...