Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that could be teaming up with bacteria to thrive off gas bubbling from the seafloor ...

Most coral reefs do not thrive in nutrient-poor “marine deserts” as once believed, but instead flourish in nutrient-rich ...

New footage from Hawaiian waters shows something that should be impossible: unlikely companions sharing dinner without any ...

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

Sharks get a bad rap. Long presented as gigantic, murderous psychopaths of the sea, these fish are in fact vital parts of ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Clemencia Guerrero has received a Whitman Center Fellowship from the Marine ...

Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology have uncovered that "natural killer" cells (NK), a type of immune ...

“Jaws” was filmed on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. After careful management and the designation of white sharks as a prohibited species in federal waters in 1997 and in ...

Depth use was influenced by temperature, but differently by sex: Females dived to greater depths than males in SST between 26°C–28°C, possibly to avoid warmer surface waters. Deep diving in males was ...