What started out as an underwater, late-night adventure for marine biology students became a dive they would never forget ...
New research shows that maintaining and adopting proposed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean could almost ...
New research reveals how oxygen-fueled organisms from the deep sea may hold the key to understanding how complex life evolved ...
In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.
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 ...
Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...
When Brazilian researcher Dr Maria 'Duda' Santos went scuba diving in Okinawa, Japan, she was surprised. Everywhere she looked, she saw species that were totally different to the marine life back home ...
Research for the study — with Maria “Duda” Santos at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology ToBo Lab and University of the Ryukyus at the helm — began with a moment of ...
The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.
Big-eyed fish, white squat lobsters and curious-looking brittle stars are all living among the wrecked ship, new study ...
A new study led by researchers at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found the marine creatures remain virtually identical throughout the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans.