As major links in the marine food web, benthic invertebrates are important for understanding the transfer of DDT to the broader ecosystem, and different species likely play different roles.

This month is a good time for those who walk La Jolla’s coastline to find small bivalves called bean clams, according to Charlotte Seid, manager of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Benthic ...

Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding ...

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ...

They’ve been crawling across the seafloor for more than 500 million years – predating the dinosaurs – yet sea stars remain some of the most misunderstood animals on Earth – if they’re even recognized ...