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

The 'Operation Crayweed' hopes to restore the habitats of Australia's coastlines by replanting this vital seaweed.

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...

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

We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

In drone footage, killer whales are seen biting off kelp stalks, positioning them between themselves and a partner, and ...

Drone footage reveals killer whales using kelp to bond, groom, and possibly heal - offering a rare glimpse into their social ...

The killer whales are using a kind of marine loofah to exfoliate. Rubbing the kelp between their bodies is a form of mutual ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when ...

Seaweed and kelp are critical for life on Earth Forests and beds filter excess nutrients and sequester carbon through ...

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

The “southern resident” killer whales, whose behaviors are the focus of a new study, have been biting off the ends of kelp ...