Accusations of overfishing and unfair practices are fuelling tensions at an international tuna summit being held this week on ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

A 4-year-old girl in India noticed a “translucent” creature in a water tank and helped scientists discover a new species, a ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

This fish is found in the extreme depths of the ocean, and is also known as the man-gobbler This species is about the size of a football ... Small populations live in the Indian Ocean along the east ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

For the period spanning the years 2018 to 2020, AIS data identified vessels from 64 countries fishing in the Indian Ocean. These include 40 distant-water-fleet countries, 23 Indian Ocean Rim ...

Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small crustaceans and fishes,” study co-author T. T. Ajith Kumar told McClatchy News via ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden ... with 253 species of reef-building corals, 730 species of coastal fish and 300 species of crab, lobster and shrimp.