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

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may ...

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

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

What you can see in this YouTube clip is very different from most of the underwater footage that you will come across online.

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third time in a decade to glimpse the life still clinging to a whale’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sensory neurons help animals make sense of the world, and these small marine invertebrates can do a lot with only a few neurons. As any first-time homeowner will tell you, picking a place to settle ...