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It is natural for algae to grow on the Greenland ice sheet. However, warmer weather has led to an increase in algal growth, contributing to the darkening of the ice sheet.
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Although hagfishes are not much to look at, they have an enviable defence mechanism that protects them from predators. Whenever predators like sharks bite them, they are forced to release them due to the slime released by the hagfish.
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The brittle star appears to hold the key to stronger ceramics. The brittle star can be found in coral reefs and has hundreds of focal lenses on its body. These powerful calcite lenses serve as its eyes.
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With a flattened tail, sea snakes are good swimmers and spend all of their lives in the water. Since they don't have gills, they have to come up to the surface for air to breathe.
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When exploring the underwater flooded cave passages within the Ox Bel Ha cave network in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, researchers discovered that methane is an important food source for the bacteria and other microbes there; in fact, they are the f
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Giant clams can absorb bright sunlight at a very high rate and the lustrous cells on the clam’s surface scatter it over a large surface area.
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When studying a specimen of walking coral retrieved from the Oshima Strait in southern Japan, ecologist Professor Makoto Kato and his colleague Momoko Igawa made an unexpected discovery.
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Despite her small size, the 12m (40ft) mini-submarine was one of the first subs to be used in conflict.
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Deep-sea scleractinian reefs can be found in places like the North Atlantic and South Pacific, but this is not the case for the North Pacific.
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From 2007 to 2014, 35 pregnancies were detected among the endangered southern resident killer whales in the inshore waters of Washington State and British Columbia. Eleven of these were successful and resulted in the birth of a calf.
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Research data from the past has revealed that one of the signs of impending global collapse of the population of whales is the shrinking sizes of the whales.
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By analyzing the attack marks on fossilized shells of marine prey, researchers discovered that the size of predators have increased over the last 500 million years, even though the size of their prey has stayed constant.
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The cichlid (Julidochromis transcriptus) is a small fish found in Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. It lives in rock crevices hidden by vegetation at the lakebed.
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The life of the glass eel (Anguilla anguilla) is an epic one (and considering its tiny size, the description is an understatement). After hatching in the Sargasso Sea, they travel thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Paleontologists discovered that the site had hosted thriving communities of scallops and shelled marine organisms (called brachiopods) for thousands of years in the past.
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Beachrock is consolidated carbonate beach sediment in the intertidal zone that forms naturally on many tropical beaches.
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