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The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is a small, deep-sea cephalopod found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world.
Read moreUS researchers measured and compared the net dark oxygen uptake of fish–anemone pairs when partners were separate from each other, together as a unit, and together as a unit but separated by a mesh screen that prevented physical contact.
Read moreA team from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter exposed crabs to recordings of ship noise and found it affected their metabolism—indicating elevated stress—and found little evidence that crabs acclimatise to noise over time.
Read moreNudibranchs are hermaphrodites, meaning that they carry both male and female reproductive organs. Moreover, when they mate, they can perform the male role of donating sperm and the female role of receiving sperm at the same time.
Read moreNew research by the University of Southampton has revealed corals utilize pink and purple hues as protective sunscreen from damaging sunlight.
Read moreThanks to an EU-funded research project called Eeliad, biologists now have a better understanding of the biology and migration route of the European eel.
Read moreI had some curious experiences with blackfin reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) while observing them in Tahiti’s lagoons, where they were easy to watch in two meters of water, and sneaked for years through the lagoons and depths off the islan
Read moreOne of the authors, diving physiologist Dr Neal W Pollock, said that whilst the AAUS (www.aaus.org) was not capturing data from all scientific dives conducted globally, this report was a reasonable snapshot of wha
Read moreMade up of ten islands off the coast of northern Mozambique, this coastal marine reserve in the Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago will cover more than 4020 square miles and contains abundant coral and turtle species.
Read moreThough scientists know that humans have an internal clock that, using the light as a cue, sets and resets itself to control things like falling asleep, the raising and lowering of our body temperatures from day to night, and the slowing of our hea
Read moreAccording to reports posted on BBC Nature, Professor David Siviter discovered the acient fossils that show the shrimps' shells, eyes and limbs.
Read moreLeopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) are unusual among apex predators in that they feed at both the top and near the bottom of marine food webs; they capture and consume marine amniotes (seals and penguins) as well as krill.
Read moreThe parallels are outlined in several papers published in a special edition of the journal Brain, Behavior and Evolution.
Read moreBiosphere mixing appears to provide about one third the power required to bring the deep, cold waters of the world ocean to the surface, which in turn completes the ocean's conveyor belt circulation critical to the global climate system.
Read moreThe ability of two bottlenosed dolphins Tursiops truncatus to understand imperative sentences expressed in artificial languages was studied.
Read moreExcerpts from Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 20, R860-R861, 23 October 2012
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