Climate change is changing already extreme nursery environments for baby blacktip reef sharks. Credit: Tom Vierus, www.tomvierus.com Scientists can now explain how baby reef sharks…
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This figure shows the routes of 35 adult female green turtles travelling to their foraging grounds in the Western Indian Ocean after the end of…
This deep-sea dragonfish has ultra-black skin capable of absorbing the bioluminescent light that might blow its cover. Credit: Photo by Karen Osborn, Smithsonian National Museum…
A paper published July 7, 2020, in the open access journal PLOS Biology outlines a roadmap for creating, for the first time, an agreed list…
How Deep-Sea, Ultra-Black Fish Disappear – Science Behind Skin That Absorbs More Than 99.5% of Light
The ultra-black Pacific blackdragon (Idiacanthus antrostomus), the second-blackest fish studied by the research team. These fish have a bioluminescent lure that they use to attract…
Credit: Jeffrey C. Chase Microbial cells are found in abundance in marine sediments beneath the ocean and make up a significant amount of the total…
Credit: Chris Fogwill, Author provided As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years.…
This illustration shows a life restoration of a pod of Ankylorhiza tiedemani hunting. Credit: Robert W Boessenecker A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9…
Credit: Dimitris Siskopoulos/Wiki commonc, CC BY-SA Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction…
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists. Credit: UCL A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered…
Adélie penguins in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, enjoy easy access to food and increase body weight and breeding success in ice-free summer. Credit: Yuuki Watanabe (National…
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football. For nearly a decade, the specimen sat unlabeled and…
This is a Siamese fighting fish. Betta fish opponents undergo similar brain changes that become more synchronized after longer fights. When two betta fish are…
A group of Pacific leaping blennies out of the water on the foreshores of the island Guam. Credit: Terry Ord, UNSW Sydney A diverse diet…
A colony of Leptoseris hawaiiensis at 315 feet in the Au’au Channel Hawaii. Credit: Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii New research published in…
Rice University scientists are analyzing the role of ferredoxin proteins produced when viral phages alter electron transfer in ocean-dwelling, photosynthetic bacteria that produce oxygen and…
Sea star wasting disease, pictured here, is likely caused by the sea star associated densovirus. Credit: Oregon State Parks Warming events are increasing in magnitude…
This is a cross-section of a zebrafish eye, showing UV capabilities. Credit: Tom Baden Recently discovered ‘single-pixel vision’ in fish could help researchers understand how…
An olive sea snake (Aipysurus laevis) foraging in Western Australia. Credit: Bruno Simoes, University of Plymouth Sea snakes first entered the marine environment 15 million…
An artist’s rendering of jellyfish augmented with the implant designed by Xu and Dabiri. Credit: Rebecca Konte/Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Stanford use microelectronics to…