Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Corals and fish are a visually conspicuous part of reefs, but they represent only a small portion of reef diversity. Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian ...

The reptile emerged from the waves in late afternoon, urged by instinct to crawl quickly and determinedly up the beach to the base of a sand dune where she planned to bury 100 eggs. Just to the north, ...

The book falls into three parts, each connected to a different century and events related to what became known as Steller’s sea cow. Turpeinen has said in an interview that her entire interest began ...

What rate has sea ice been decreasing in the last few decades? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the history of sea ice decline ...

Artificial cast of Germanasterias amplipapularia, holotype Nr. 18869a–b in abactinal view (A), and actinal view (B). (C) Details of the disc and arm in abactinal view. (D) Detail of the arms and oral ...