Cute but not cuddly, a colony of sea squirts dubbed “Skeleton panda ascidian” by divers after being discovered in waters off Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a new species. The sea ...

Akihito found the species among the fish he caught on Zamamijima and Iriomotejima islands in Okinawa Prefecture between 2001 and 2008, and began studying them around 2017, according to the agency.

the Okinawa woodpecker has lingered on the Fish and Wildlife Service’s “warranted but precluded” list of plants and wildlife that may deserve protection but are not considered priorities. This ...

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their collaborators applied human dental impression techniques to study fish teeth in a species called Polypterus senegalus.

Several of the species on Guam and other islands in the northern Marianas are severely threatened by military expansion related to the relocation of 5,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa. The Fish and ...