7+ hour, 54+ min ago   (620+ words) —She has been swimming for weeks. —At first light a volunteer finds them, and a yellow stake goes in. —That is the battle. It is only the first one. —Sixty days in the sand —Temperature decides something else. Sea turtles…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (349+ words) —That is precisely why what Mote Marine Laboratory is doing this summer matters more than a routine fish release. —A fish with no price tag — and an outsized footprint —What Mote is doing this summer —The science is the point....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1109+ words) Linda Mitchell has a phrase she has lived by for most of her adult life: bloom where you are planted. —It sounds simple enough — the kind of thing you needlepoint on a pillow or write in a card. But for…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (434+ words) As a brutal winter cold front seized Florida in late January, plunging air temperatures into the 30s and sending water thermometers nose-diving, a silent crisis began to unfold beneath the waves. While residents bundled up against the chill, Florida’s most vulnerable…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago   (273+ words) Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium held the official grand opening of the new Mote Science Education Aquarium on Oct. 8. The new Aquarium marks decades of leadership and philanthropy that paved the way for the 146,000-square-foot facility at 225 University Town Center Drive…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (520+ words) The peer-reviewed study, published in Science Advances, shows that fins from four out of five shark species regulated under the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) remain common in Hong Kong’s markets, the global hub for shark fins,…...