Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Before the rise of dinosaurs, Earth was a vastly different place, teeming with life in forms that were strange and unlike ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Scientists just sequenced the first sea spider genome, uncovering genetic clues to limb growth, regeneration, and ancient ...

Scientists have warned that the planet crossed the global boundary for ocean acidification around the year 2020, according to ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

So far, the Marine Organismal Body Size Database includes the maximum size of some 85,200 marine species. Biologists have launched a database of marine animals’ body sizes that they say could help ...

Soft corals, which are members of the class Octocorallia, are major components of marine ecosystems, including coral reefs.

Recent investigations have significantly advanced our understanding of biofluorescence across a range of organisms. In marine ecosystems, studies of luminous fishes have revealed complex endocrine ...

Scientists have known for decades that soaring atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions are causing changes in ocean chemistry, ...