It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Scientists in China have conducted a year-long study on six "aquavoltaics" farms hosting sea cucumber aquacultures under the ...

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Tasmania. Every year, around 2000 marine mammals die in mass strandings worldwide. But this is not always for natural reasons ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

Sea scallops are part of the bivalve family because the animals inside create their own ... The filter-feeding species eat plankton by catching the tiny creatures on their mucus and then moving ...

Two female sea lions nursed ... Smith said the animal presented with neurological symptoms that could indicate domoic acid poisoning – caused by consuming plankton that has become toxic ...

The animal kingdom is home to some truly slow-moving creatures that take life at a leisurely pace. The slowest animal in the ...

plankton, seagrasses and other forms of sea life interact sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals ...