Parasites are crucial indicators of ecosystem health, and their absence can signal trouble. Once pristine, Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) now faces pollution and algal blooms that have damaged ...

While an abundance of parasites might seem like a bad thing, their absence actually signals trouble in the environment.

Researchers studying dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon found that when seagrass dies off, dolphins have to shift their ...

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater ...

A year after the Wakulla Environmental Institute deployed oyster domes in Wakulla County the project is seeing real results ...

Led by Fee Smulders from Wageningen University & Research, international scientists investigated how seagrass responds to warming waters, grazing by sea turtles and fish, and nutrient pollution.

Manatees are not the only marine mammals that suffer when seagrass dies off in Florida. A new study found that dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon starved when seagrass meadows declined as well.

A school of scrawled filefish make their way over the coral reef in Mexico. They are ornate fish with a flat profile and a large fan tail. They are capable of changing colour to mimic their ...

Brevard Zoo's first two manatees recover at new rehab facility. The new facility was made possible by a $2.1 million state ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium has been officially designated as a secondary care rehabilitation facility ...