Marine

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...

Climate change is putting countless marine organisms under pressure. However, jellyfish in the world’s oceans could actually benefit from the...

    Scientists at the University of Oregon have discovered that colonies of gelatinous sea animals swim through the ocean...

Many organisms are far more complex than just a single species. Humans, for example, are full of a variety of...