For nearly half a century, Brown University marine biologist Jon Witman has been diving Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain ...

They’ve been crawling across the seafloor for more than 500 million years – predating the dinosaurs – yet sea stars remain ...

KOTA KINABALU: Pitch black, cold, silent. The bottom of the ocean, where sunlight does not reach, where weird and unusual sea ...

Benthic invertebrates nestedness among the habitats during the flood (A) and during the drought (B). Grey rectangles represent taxa presence. We rejected our second hypothesis about the nestedness of ...

Maine's coastal and marine waters host a large diversity of habitat and species thanks to complex circulation patterns and our location between the Artic and Temperate ecological zones. Maine's marine ...

A seastar that specializes in living on pieces of wood that have fallen into the ocean is among the top 10 new marine species described by researchers in 2024. And in the case of this particular ...

Article citations More>> Scheltema, R.S. (1986) Long-Distance Dispersal by Planktonic Larvae of Shoal-Water Benthic Invertebrates among Central Pacific Islands. Bulletin of Marine Science, 39, 241-256 ...

Per Hedberg, Séréna Albert, Francisco J. A. Nascimento, Monika Winder, Effects of changing phytoplankton species composition on carbon and nitrogen uptake in benthic invertebrates, Limnology and ...

On view at Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport Museum, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka’s glass reproductions of sea creatures are meticulous marvels from an age before the widespread use of underwater ...

However, his most recent discovery might remain at the top of his list for some time: a half-billion-year-old fossil from the wonderfully weird group of marine invertebrates, the tunicates. “This ...

Researchers led by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa have found that a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean on floating ...