And killer whale youngsters are fond of playing kelp keep-away. But what the southern residents are doing with the kelp ...

A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of ...

While the Sericosura spiders are the first of their kind caught feeding on methane-fueled microbes, they’re not alone in ...

The province – dubbed the "Seaweed Capital of the Philippines" – produces around 40 percent of the country's 600 000-tonne annual output. It has primarily been for export to make carrageenan, a ...

For years – 14 in fact – the ISA has been debating deep-sea mining. The authority has been working with 168 member states, all parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a legal ...

If you’ve spent most of your life under the impression that loofahs are some type of sea sponge and that these scratchy natural scrubbers are the last thing you’d want to use on your body on a ...

Discover how a new solar-powered device extracts potable water from air, offering a sustainable solution for disaster relief and arid regions.

“Few other organisms will eat these sponges,” says José Urteaga, an expert in sea turtle conservation and the director of marine partnerships at Wild Earth Allies, a wildlife conservation group.

Kampourakis and the sculpture. Credit: Kalymnos municipality/Marketing Greece.Illustration: Greek Reporter. Greek sponge diver Antonis Kampourakis from Kalymnos has been diving into the depths of the ...