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

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

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon's "humongous fungus" was considered the world's largest organism.

Soft corals in the West Philippine Sea and Benham Bank in the Philippine Rise, which are under threat from China, are among ...

Beneath the waters of the West Sea (WPS) and Benham Rise, scientists have discovered wide swathes of diverse soft corals.1 ...

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

Biofluorescence, the phenomenon whereby organisms absorb high‐energy light and reemit it at longer wavelengths, is now recognised as a widespread and evolutionarily significant trait across both ...

Scientists have made the first comprehensive marine wildlife size database to help scientists better understand ocean ...

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 ...

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