Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

According to a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and published in the Proceedings of the ...

Strands of kelp glow in the dim morning light off California’s Channel Islands as fish and sea lions weave through the golden ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

‘These vast stretches of open ocean harbor unique and often fragile ecosystems yet remain among the least understood and least protected areas on the planet,’ said Mr Zhu. To support the ...

The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not only increases the amount of light entering the ocean ... for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University ...

Imagine a world where sunlight barely penetrates, where darkness reigns and strange, glowing creatures drift silently through ...

Mark Conlin/VW PICS/UIG/Getty The area is home to seven wildlife refuges, which are made up of coral reefs, island habitats, and open ocean ... our fragile ocean ecosystem and costing us lives ...

They could be a sign of an unhealthy ecosystem ... special is a huge, open question.” “Milky seas” are different from the more common bioluminescent ocean events caused by a type of ...