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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Vast That Sea Creatures Have Turned It Into a Home
People via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46...
Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago – study
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, new research suggests. The...
Scientists propose way to combat coral bleaching using curcumin
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCoral Reef Getty Images/by wildestanimal Things are not looking good for coral. Thanks to...
Harvest of horseshoe crabs, needed for blue blood, stopped during spawning season in national refuge
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a...
Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe coral Iridogorgia magnispiralis. Deep-sea octocorals like this are known to be bioluminescent....
A 500-million-year-old sea squirt is the evolutionary clue we need to understand our humble...
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoArtistic reconstruction of Megasiphon thylakos, a benthic organism that lived directly on the...
How Maine's sea stars are fighting for survival in a changing ocean
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTurns out we’ve been looking at starfish all wrong. First, they’re not fish. They belong to a group...
Winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024: photos
NY Post via Yahoo News· 4 months agoUnderwater Photographer of the Year competition celebrates photography beneath the surface of the...
Unexpected Species Are Colonizing Rafts of Plastic Debris in the High Seas
Treehugger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPlastic pollution is creating mobile habitats for species once confined to the coasts. What could...
Mass. has no state amphibian, but some local students want to change that
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe short list of creatures vying for recognition as the newest Massachusetts state symbols may not...