Endangered smalltooth sawfish make a comeback in a historical Florida nursery

During the winters of 2024 and 2025, widespread "spinning fish" events swept through the Florida Keys, impacting more than 80 ...

Bringing marine life back to South Florida's 'forgotten edge'

Seawalls are great at protecting property and people. A new nature-inspired seawall add-on is trying to make them better at protecting marine wildlife too.
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Cannibalism Takes Major Bite Out of Young Blue Crabs, but the Shallows Offer a Refuge

Smithsonian study finds juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats to escape cannibalism by adults ...

In Indonesia, a fishing village replants mangrove forests one seedling at a time

Over the last 30 years, 40% of Indonesia's mangroves have been cut down mainly to create fish and shrimp farms, destroying local ecosystems. But one small indigenous fishing village is changing that.

Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of ...