Getting accurate information on animal species can be quite a challenge, especially when they live deep within the sea. One of those animals is the Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus), which, ...

In 1979, A Deep-Sea Mining Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, ... “What is interesting is that animal life has actually started to recolonise the mined area.

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

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. "Animals keep viruses in the sea in balance." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 27 March 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 03 / 200327113658.htm>.

With 5 stunning Duke University undergraduates, I am participating in an experiment, one in which science outreach and research aren’t seen as separate spheres. “Time to put away the research and do ...

Deep-sea animals eating plastic fibers from clothing. By Erica Cirino, Oceans Deeply. ... During an experiment in March, she filled several long glass tubes with seafloor sediment, ...

Laser-Guided Sea-Monkeys Show That Tiny Animals Can Move Mountains of Seawater. Small crustaceans like krill could have a big effect on how seawater is mixed in the ocean.

Two species of the newly described animal were found along the bottom of the ocean as deep as 3,200 feet beneath the surface. One is a about 10 mm in length, the other is 17 mm; both are slightly ...

The wind and tides are major drivers of the ocean’s global circulation, moving its waters all over the planet and mixing up its temperature, salinity, and nutrients. But according to new ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent of plastic for food. Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a ...

But they all started eating each other before we even introduced the crabs. So we had to scrap that experiment.” They turned their attention to the more interesting phenomenon of sea star cannibalism, ...