The ocean floor is riddled with ungodly species that seem to have been created out of our worst collective nightmares. There are demonic-looking fishes that glow and sponges (that do not look like ...

On summer nights, the waters off the coast of Western Washington glow brighter than usual. The reason for the stunning sight is a natural phenomenon: electric blue, bioluminescent plankton. The Salish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become ...

Pelagic ctenophores are a type of gelatinous animal that gets carried along by water currents. The country has now registered ...

The communities of tiny picoplankton in oceans reveal a great deal about the health of marine ecosystems and food webs. KAUST researchers have examined how numbers of these organisms vary across the ...

Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction event. Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's ...

THE importance of studying the common plankton organisms is shown by Prof. Herdman in his “Spolia Runiana,”where, basing his results on more than ten years' systematic collecting and working out of ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise – and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for ...

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...