"I felt the pressure of the bite." Marine biologist bit in head by shark in stunning attack: 'It was like being hit by a car' ...

Three hundred miles—and a 36-hour boat ride—southwest of mainland Costa Rica, a lush volcanic island rears up improbably out of the Pacific Ocean. Cocos is at once a geological anomaly, a stopover for ...

On June 22, an activity was held to commemorate the 44th anniversary of Cocos Island National Park. This celebration was an excellent opportunity to... The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado ...

The Cocos Marine Conservation Area (ACMC) this month signed agreements with two organizations in order to improve the protection of Isla del Coco, an island 550 km southwest of the Costa Rican ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A Mexican marine biologist was seriously injured after he was attacked by a shark while working off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast and transferred to a hospital in the ...

Brown, John W. and Miller, Scott E. 1999. A new species of Coelostathma Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) From Cocos Islands, Costa Rica, with comments on the phylogenetic significance of avdominal dorsal ...

The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 381-387 (7 pages) Halecia cocosae sp. n. from Cocos Island, Costa Rica, is described, illustrated and discussed in context with others from ...

A commitment to create a marine protected area around Cocos Island fell through, though the country’s new government may take another look. Political leaders should be accountable for their ...

The Secretariat received information about significantly increased illegal fishing within the Cocos Island Marine Reserve that took place in October 2001. In answer to the Secretariat’s inquiry, the ...

The scent of diesel, rusting anchors and fish slurry hung in the humid air of the harbor. I was in Puntarenas on the western shore of Costa Rica, waiting to leave on a scuba-diving trip to Cocos ...