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

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

Other types of sea spiders that don’t live near seeps largely eat other invertebrates. But the researchers found the new sea ...

A study reveals how bacteria present in marine particles maintain the oceanic nitrogen cycle, providing ecological stability ...

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 ...

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

An increasingly common way to keep tabs on coral reef health is by measuring microorganisms in the local seawater.

A Missouri judge has ordered an insurance company to pay nearly $44 million in a lawsuit involving a man whose conviction for ...

The heat is on as the summer surf season starts Friday, June 20. The ocean temperature has reached the mid-60s. Two ...

Scientists say they have discovered a new species of methane-powered spiders that live at the bottom of the ocean.