Tag: Gulf of Mexico

Kristen Hart has been surveying a number of nesting loggerhead sea turtle populations for years. Like most turtle ecologists, she knows that the females don’t typically start nesting unless they...

Endangered beach mice on the Gulf Coast do best in dark nights, with no cats in sight. “[The mice] had a higher probability of being present in areas where there...

A small group of whales in the Gulf of Mexico was already the focus of conservation efforts, but recent research has confirmed the group of about 33 baleen whales make...

When Marcus Drymon was conducting his usual shark surveys in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he wasn’t surprised to catch a small tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). The surprise was...