Despite urban coastal pollution, sharks, including bull, nurse, and great hammerhead, are frequently found near cities like Miami. This behavior could expose them to health…
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Ice worms inhabiting methane hydrate. Credit: NOAA New findings reveal that deep-sea methane deposits are converting into gas at a higher rate than previously observed…
Sea otters swim together in the Pacific Ocean. A deadly, newly detected strain of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii is threatening sea otters, and potentially other…
Enceladus black smoker at the Aurora Vent Field. Credit: HACON cruise 2021, REV Ocean In the depths of the ocean, along tectonic plate boundaries, hydrothermal…
This visualization depicts bathymetric features of the western Atlantic Ocean Basin, including the continental shelf, captured by satellite. Credit: NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite and Information…
A microscope image of a shelled plankton. According to research from The University of Texas at Austin, plankton populations like this flourished in the tropics…
Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen. Credit: Illustration by Esther van Hulsen For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched…
A new study found that smaller Antarctic minke whales would not be able to survive, as they would not capture enough food using the lunge-feeding…
A picture of the tropical kelp forest. Credit: Charles Darwin Foundation/University of Malaga The Charles Darwin Foundation-led research holds importance due to the discovery of…
These monogenean worms (Microcotyle sebastis) were dissected from the gills of a preserved copper rockfish specimen from the UW Fish Collection at the Burke Museum.…
Graphical abstract of the research method. Credit: Maaike Goudriaan, NIOZ Laboratory experiment shows that bacteria really eat and digest plastic. The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats…
A study published in Scientific Reports has uncovered the genes that likely enabled whales to grow to enormous sizes compared to their ancestors. The research…
Coral colonies of the species Colpophyllia natans and Orbicella faveolata maintained in the Experimental Reef Laboratory aquarium systems. These corals were rescued from a seawall…
The type specimen that George Willett used to originally describe the species. Credit: Valentich-Scott et al. A tiny clam, previously only known from fossil records,…
Adjacent comb plates wave semi-synchronously. Credit: University of Tsukuba University of Tsukuba researchers discover a protein that controls the unique movement of comb jellies. The…
Researchers have uncovered evidence that vast phytoplankton blooms may be lurking beneath Antarctic ice. Scientists using NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
After another year of increased coral cover across much of the Great Barrier Reef, northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount…
Palaeoneiros clackorum skull and shoulder girdle. Credit: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; © President and Fellows of Harvard College According to new research, ray-finned…
Many deep-sea organisms are able to emit ‘living light’ through a chemical reaction, bringing light to the otherwise total darkness of the deep ocean. Bioluminescent…
Torn deck plating of the V-1302 John Mahn that was damaged by the bomb that hit amidships. Credit: VLIZ Scientists have discovered that an 80-year-old…