Marine

Cell division is one of the most fundamental processes of life. From bacteria to blue whales, every living being on...

Plastic pollution presents a global challenge that must be solved. In particular, packaging accounts for 30-50% of the total plastic...

NEWPORT, Ore. – A recent boom in the purple sea urchin population off the southern Oregon Coast appears to have...

New MBARI research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful...

Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth’s largest earthquakes and...

For hundreds of years, the whitespotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) has been considered the only inshore stingray species in Bermuda,...

Compartments of consistently sized, tightly packed microspheres are what makes some brown algae shimmer like opal. The Kobe University discovery...

The basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton, responds to heatwaves much differently than to constantly...

The ocean waters surrounding the German island of Helgoland provide an ideal setting to study spring algae blooms, a focus...

Using tools, like shells and rocks, to open their often thick-shelled mollusk prey increases foraging success in sea otters and...