Scientists dredging the Korean Strait pulled up something so alien it broke their classification system entirely. Two ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...

Bermuda’s Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world; now, one more joins their ranks as researchers of the University of Cambridge, ...

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter, they’re secretly stashing 65 million tonnes of carbon far below the ...

Marine copepods constitute a critical link between primary producers and higher trophic levels, mediating the transfer of energy and matter through the world’s oceans. Their feeding rates, ...