Mark Perry, the longtime executive director of the Florida Oceanographic Society, has spent his adult life trying to protect the waters of the St. Lucie River Estuary. He recalls growing up on the ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the thriller thriller that revolutionized modern cinema, Jaws. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Jaws takes viewers to the small resort town of Amity Island as ...

What had the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator, roughly the ...

The project will involve constructing up to six new oyster reefs in the bays of the Mission-Aransas Estuary. The restored reefs will be protected from harvesting to promote oyster population ...

Sea otters feast on tough-shelled prey like clams, mussels, crabs, and sea urchins. Their powerful jaws and specialized molars help them crush some food, but for the hardest shells, they need a ...

This approach was taken because pigs grow many sets of teeth throughout their lifetime. Once mostly grown, the teeth were implanted into the jaws of pigs for two months and then removed. The ...

However, the sampling design for the survey on ichthyoplankton in the estuary area is still poorly understood. In this study, we developed six stratified schemes with various sample sizes, attempting ...

This study explored the effects of interactions between waves and current on storm surge in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) using a fully coupled wave–current model. The model was validated based on in ...