The question is no longer whether China will take part in global ocean governance, but whether it aims to shape it-- and potentially lead it.

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

A new sponge species has been discovered off the coast of South Africa, named after a marine scientist whose work has ...

New research shows the effects of marine heat waves on sponges could be much more severe as temperatures rise. More intense ...

The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the arrival of all complex life on Earth has had an unsolved mystery at its heart. According to the theory, all plants, animals and fungi, known ...

The footage was captured by a camera operated by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, which studies life in some of the deepest, least-visited parts of the ocean. The camera was positioned near ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: ...

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

The decision follows the Marine Biological Laboratory’s transition toward self-sufficiency over the past few years.

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

As he enters a laboratory with saltwater pools full of fish, Luka Žuvić explains how climate change is affecting the feeding ecology and reproductive biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna, and how the ...