To start a kelp-based grooming session, an orca places the bull kelp stipe on its face and nuzzles against another killer ...

Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new ...

Restoring Port Phillip Bay’s dwindling kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver more than $92 million in ...

Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that remains in ...

Its underwater forests capture carbon, create shelter for marine species and serve as a nursery for creatures like abalone ...

Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself ...

Sea star larvae have been stored at -200°C and thawed for the first time, a step towards restoring populations that have been ravaged by disease ...

A new study reveals killer whales fashion kelp into tools and use them to groom each other, a possible first for marine ...

KelpFest will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A kelp talk will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Meet at the Cobblestones on Main Beach Park.

University of Washington scientists have been working for years to build a plan to grow the sea stars in a lab and release ...

In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest were recorded rubbing stalks of kelp against ...

With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the sunflower star is a purple urchin-eating machine. But Bank said the sunflower ...