Marine

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) A growing international effort is taking the first steps toward evaluating whether sinking terrestrial plant biomass into...

Invasive rats have created strikingly different outcomes for the reef “dark matter” of tropical ecosystems: the cryptofauna—tiny fish and invertebrates...

Fast-swimming sharks owe their performance not just to muscles and fins, but to a highly specialized internal blueprint embedded within...

Teaching an AI to navigate a ship is turning out to be a far tougher problem than teaching it to...

Uranium sits at the heart of the nuclear power industry, and natural aquatic environments are among its richest reservoirs. Yet...

Black corals, belonging to the ancient group Antipatharia, may look like fragile ocean ornaments, but their true power lies at...

An international team led by scientists at the University of Tartu reports a striking ecological pivot in Earth’s deep past:...

The Great Barrier Reef is not only a habitat for corals and fish—it also harbors a vast, invisible microbial community...

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have long been treated as self-contained anomalies—events with clear start and end dates. But a new study...

Orcas in the Gulf of California have been documented using a previously undescribed “hold-to-ram” strategy to process prey. Researchers report...