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A new study reveals that Caribbean parrotfishes and surgeonfishes consume plankton-eating fish feces as a nutrient-rich supplement to algae.

Honey bees and sea turtles may seem like strange bedfellows, but through two of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve's (NERR) stewardship programs – Fennessey Ranch and the Amos Rehabilitation Keep (ARK) – these two species are connected through a unique collaboration.

Sometimes well known, simple household objects can be the best tools to use in a science experiment.

Plastic pollution in marine environments has no border, and now neither does the Nurdle Patrol.

Delicate ecosystems become more precarious as specialized hunters disappear.

If you are an angler looking for the best place to fish in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil platforms offshore of Louisiana's Atchafalaya River are your best bet.

The Bay Education Center, operated by the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, a program of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, is reopening with new exhibits.

Scientists have identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around the world.

Here’s how eukaryotes might have evolved from simpler life forms

Winter Storm Uri caused damage and hardship across the state of Texas, and at the Port Aransas campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the work to recover from it included rehabilitating a record number of sea turtles threatened by the cold weather.