Robot Fleet Dives in “Marine Snow” for Climate Answers
Australian research voyage to investigate how life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere. A fleet of new-generation, deep-diving ocean robots…
Australian research voyage to investigate how life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere. A fleet of new-generation, deep-diving ocean robots…
From Brazil’s Amazon, researchers report “spooky interactions” among surface- and cave-dwelling electric fish, revealing shocking behavior of 300 blind cavefishes whose ancestors adopted life in…
Hydrothermally-active submarine volcanoes account for much of Earth’s volcanism and are mineral-rich biological hotspots, yet very little is known about the dynamics of microbial diversity…
“This animal was obviously doing something different,” Baylor University paleontologist says. A mysterious small marine reptile dating from 150 million years ago has been identified…
A new study provides the first detailed documentation of a shallow water fish diving 450 feet (137 meters) deep to spawn. Uncovering this very rare…
Ancient marine creatures called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race according to new research published on December 2, 2020. The…
Pathology reports on more than 50 killer whales stranded over nearly a decade in the northeast Pacific and Hawaii show that orcas face a variety…
When you think of swimming, you probably imagine pushing through the water—creating backwards thrust that pushes you forward. New research at the Marine Biological Laboratory…
Some, if not all, early sharks that lived 300 to 400 million years ago not only dropped their lower jaws downward but rotated them outwards…
Viruses are tiny invaders that cause a wide range of diseases, from rabies to tomato spotted wilt virus and, most recently, COVID-19 in humans. But…
Ocean deoxygenation is now being recognized as major threat to future global coral reef survival. Oxygen is life, in or out of the water, raising…
One of the most remarkable groups of deep-sea squids is the Magnapinnidae, known for their large fins and strikingly long arm and tentacle filaments. Little…
Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin are among a four-strong team of principal investigators spearheading a new €10.4 million project funded by the European Research…
A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their own way home — a behavior previously undocumented…
Insights into century-old controversy about key gland’s development arise from research led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC A new USC-led study suggests…
Tiny, seemingly harmless ocean plants survived the darkness of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs by learning a ghoulish behavior — eating other living…
When it comes to hitching a ride, whale-surfing remoras are perfectly at home latching onto the largest creatures on the planet. “From static photos, it’s…
Declines in shellfish species on rocky seashores match climate-driven changes. Two decades of data from a study of Maine’s Swan’s Island document a slow and…