Decompression sickness can occur when a mammal swims to the ocean's surface too quickly, and the change in pressure produces lethal nitrogen gas bubbles that clog its blood vessels. As deep divers ...

For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures have lived off of this whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into ...

Even a 10 percent decrease in the population of pteropods could mean a 20 percent drop in an adult salmon’s body weight. Sea Otters: Effects of ocean acidification will be felt up the food chain.