This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

A man paddleboarding with his friends is shocked to see a squid wrapping its tentacles around his paddleboard and pulling him ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

Dragging nets along the ocean floor is like ‘clearcutting an old-growth forest,’ Pacific Wild says. An industry group ...

Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

Piping plovers are also probably the best known of the federally endangered or threatened animal and plant species in Connecticut. There are others.

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before. Unlike animals like ourselves, who are fed by a ...

Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around ...

A recent study uncovers three sea spider species that depend on methane-eating microbes for food, offering insight into ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.