Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live underwater. And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — ...

Scientists are alarmed by the ongoing crisis, with deteriorating conditions harming marine life in the tropics and beyond ...

Researchers say they're seeing more of these colorful blobs growing on docks, but they're not the only invasive marine ...

The sea surface is home to a diverse group of animals adapted to life in the open ocean, but increasingly, they’re sharing that space with plastic debris. This year, neuroscience researchers made ...

The Marine Invertebrates gallery is closed from 10.00-15.30 every other Tuesday. The space is being used for our Adventure Babies event. The gallery may be closed on an irregular basis for other ...

Oil and dispersed oil are toxic to marine invertebrates like corals, lobsters, crabs, oysters, clams, zooplankton, starfish and sand-dwelling organisms. As with fish, it’s impossible to tally how many ...

The ichthyologist Dr. Carl Hubbs arrived at Scripps in 1944, and he separated the biological collections into the marine vertebrates and invertebrates. In 1951 the T.W. Vaughan Aquarium-Museum was ...

The evolutionary history of colour and vision has been closely intertwined over the last 500 million years, leading to a dazzling diversity of colours and visual systems in marine invertebrates.