Dolphins in action. Credit: Dara Orbach Like humans, female dolphins have a functional clitoris, according to a study appearing today (January 10, 2022) in the…
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Global port-to-port traffic network of all ships that visited Antarctica from 2014-2018. Credit: David Aldridge Marine life hitching a ride on ocean-crossing ships poses a…
This new species of sea slug, Limacia inesae, can be found in the Atlantic off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Credit: Miguel Pontes ©…
A pygmy zebra octopus hatchling in the Cephalopod Mariculture Lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. These octopuses are about the size of a…
Jelena Godrijan performs measurements on coccolithophores during long-term experiments at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The work led to a discovery of how some species…
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found that the way fish interact in groups is being upset by ocean acidification and global warming. “Fish…
Salmon can colonize newly created streams, but face many other challenges from climate change. Credit: Freshwaters Illustrated Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western…
Market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens Credit: © 2001 MBARI Acoustic tools reveal hotspots of ocean life in scattered places. Ocean predators cannot survive on average concentrations…
A chimney structure from the Sea Cliff hydrothermal vent field located more than 8,800 feet (2,700 meters) below the sea’s surface at the submarine boundary…
Industrial fishing over the past century appears to have broken a law of nature. Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from…
The penis worm Eximipriapulus inhabiting a hyolith shell. Credit: Prof Zhang Xiguang, Yunnan University A new study by researchers from Durham University and Yunnan University…
Researchers from Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and Duke University investigate a humpback whale by boat and drone in the surface waters near the Western…
New research published today in the journal Nature finds that gigantic baleen whales—such as blue, fin and humpback whales—eat an average of three times more…
Sweet spots of tropical biomass production emerge where favorable ocean conditions concentrate resources, and also their consumers. Here, schools of sweetlips, snappers, fusiliers, and unicornfishes…
Pacific white-sided dolphins swim off the coast of the Salish Sea. Credit: Matt Whelan, Salish Sea in Focus How a deadly land fungus began killing…
September 8, 2021 Spencer Gulf in South Australia hosts the world’s largest cuttlefish mass spawning event. Each winter from May to August, thousands of Australian giant…
A trilobite fossil from the Ordovician period, which lasted from about 485 to 443 million years ago. A new analysis of marine fossils from most…
Visitors at a Shedd Aquarium exhibit. Credit: Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez Hungry microbes found responsible for stealing from Shedd Aquarium’s animals. For months, veterinarians put medicine…