Scientists dredging the Korean Strait pulled up something so alien it broke their classification system entirely. Two microscopic parasites, unlike any copepod ever recorded, forced researchers to ...

When your body reaches nearly 20-metres long, whale sharks need to be flexible when choosing how best to snare their sizeable ...

Research led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Murdoch University has identified 36 whale shark behaviours using camera ...

Over a period of 6 months, a jar sealed with dirt, sand, and river water developed into a living ecosystem, revealing the ...

Scientists long believed that these whales, which swim throughout the Southern Hemisphere, mainly feasted on krill and small ...

Scientific illustration is about recording accurate forms without distorting the subject. You must not project imagination ...

Greenland sharks swim at a foot per second, grow a centimeter a year, and don't reach sexual maturity until roughly 150 years ...

Learn how new ocean floor formed in real time as earthquakes, sinking crust, and fresh lava reshaped the Southeast Indian Ridge. A couple of months after a French-led research team anchored a set of ...

The Fisheries Agency plans to accelerate the mass production of a plankton that serves as a highly nutritious form of feed as part of efforts to boost exports of farmed fish, according to sources.

Zooplankton are a critical component of marine ecosystems. They link phytoplankton production to higher levels of the marine food chain (which the scientists call trophic levels), including ...

The iconic one-eyed monster coming to movie screens in July in The Odyssey might have more in common with tiny water critters than with humans.

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