Industrial scale micro-algal bioreactors. Credit: Stock images Marine microalgae-based cellular agriculture is a promising new way to sustainably produce plant-based ‘meat’ and healthy ‘superfoods’ for…
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Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois). Credit: Jenny – Flickr CC BY 2.0 Fossil Burrows Point to Ancient Seafloor Colonization by Giant Marine Worms Giant ambush-predator worms,…
In warmer waters, shark embryos grew faster and used their yolk sac quicker, which is their only source of food as they develop in the…
This octopus has color-changing cells, called chromatophores, in its skin, a phenomenon that inspired Rutgers engineers. Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011…
An artist’s impression of the new sea dragon, Thalassodraco etches, in the Late Jurassic seas. Credit: Megan Jacobs An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a…
A closeup view of a bottlenose dolphin shows signs of skin lesions associated with a deadly skin disease known as ulcerative dermatitis. In collaboration with…
Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. Credit: Maoz Fine A paper to be published in Frontiers in Marine Science on December 15 is…
CSIRO’s RV Investigator. Credit: CSIRO Australian research voyage to investigate how life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere. A fleet…
Researchers at the mouth of the São Vicente Cave system. Credit: Adriano Gambarini From Brazil’s Amazon, researchers report “spooky interactions” among surface- and cave-dwelling electric…
Mysterious Prehistoric “Sea Dragon” Discovered on English Channel Coast Is Identified As New Species
Illustration of Thalassodraco etchesi. Credit: Megan Jacobs “This animal was obviously doing something different,” Baylor University paleontologist says. A mysterious small marine reptile dating from…
An artist’s reconstruction of ‘Anomalocaris’ briggsi swimming within the twilight zone. Credit: Katrina Kenny Ancient marine creatures called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove…
A southern resident killer whale swims in the Salish Sea in 2018. An endangered species, this population of just over 70 individuals lives year-round off…
Polychaete worm, Tomopteris, with setae moving on each side of the body in metachronal waves. Credit: Sean Colin When you think of swimming, you probably…
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…
A unique stress experiment aligned deoxygenation stress to the natural night-day cycle of common reef-building corals from The Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Morgan Bennett-Smith Ocean…
Magnapinna squid. Credit: Osterhage et al. (PLOS ONE, 2020) CC BY One of the most remarkable groups of deep-sea squids is the Magnapinnidae, known for…
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 close-up of a crown-of-thorns starfish. The creatures eat Acropora corals until they’re effectively homeless. Credit: Morgan Pratchett A world-first study on the Great Barrier…
Pituitary Puzzle Gets a New Piece: Insights Into Century-Old Controversy Revise Evolutionary History
View of the larval zebrafish face shows a type of endoderm cell in red and all other cell types in white. Fabian, Crump, and colleagues…
K/Pg, or Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, refers to the aftermath of the asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Credit: Odysseus Archontikis/University of Oxford Tiny, seemingly…