This week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast brought an exciting find — several sargassum frogfish, also known as anglerfish, hidden among the freshly washed-up mats of seaweed. These ...

One of the craziest fish you'll ever see has washed up on Texas shores. The Harte Research Institute, a research component of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, shared its findings of a fish that ...

Brian Lapointe, an algae bloom expert at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, is deep into his research on to to best dispose of large sargassum mats landing on Florida ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — If you've been to the beach recently, you might have noticed clumps of seaweed in different spots. Experts say the seaweed is called sargassum, and it originates from Atlantic ...

Across the Atlantic, a brown, sprawling presence is testing coasts, economies, and patience as warmer months return again. New satellite measurements and ...

Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, originates in the Atlantic Ocean and provides crucial habitat for marine life. Experts predict a record year for sargassum, with massive amounts already observed in ...

Most of the troubles plaguing the subtropical waters of Florida and the Caribbean revolve around disappearing marine life: coral reefs, fish populations, sea grass beds. It’s decidedly the opposite ...

An immense brown tide creeps across the Atlantic, defying seasons and satellites while coastal towns brace for another uneasy ...

April 10 (UPI) --An unwelcome visitor is headed for Florida and the Caribbean: huge floating mats of sargassum, or free-floating brown seaweed. Nearly every year since 2011, sargassum has inundated ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a thick mass of leafy, floating seaweed stretching across 5,000 miles of ocean, is forecast to be a nuisance of record-breaking proportions this year. In May, ...

It's finally the time of year again — filled with spontaneous and relaxing beach trips, as well as heavy blankets of smelly seaweed. Large blobs of sargassum, a naturally occurring type of macroalgae, ...