Researchers find deep-sea microbes that feed on ethane and grow them in the laboratory; what…
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Cambridge have…
Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodiles. Taking the evolutionary plunge into water and…
Researchers from Cambridge University and the University of California San Diego have 3D-printed coral-inspired structures…
The radioactive legacy of the arms race reveals true age of the world’s largest fish.…
Beer stein-shaped distant relative of modern clams captured snapshots of hot days in the late…
Sturgeons lived on earth already 300 million years ago and yet their external appearance seems…
A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling…
When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was unearthed in Utah in…
One week is all it takes for a piece of plastic floating in the ocean…
Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to…
The giant squid is an elusive giant, but its secrets are about to be revealed.…
Drifting algae in the Austral Ocean can bring invasive species to the Antarctic coasts, according…
Bremer Canyon Marine Park is already known as a biodiversity hotspot for marine species such…
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio static.…
Scientists discovered dozens of new coral species on a recent voyage along the length of…
Native fish discovered with spinal deformities in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in 2011 were exposed…
First suggested for killer whales, skin molt may drive long-distance migration for all whales that…