Marine Biology News
November 20, 2024
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Nov. 18, 2024 — Many living organisms are able to regenerate damaged or lost tissue, but why some are particularly good at this and others are not is not fully understood. Molecular biologists have now made an important contribution to clarifying this question in a ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Different species of seabirds can coexist on small, isolated islands despite eating the same kind of fish. A researcher has been involved in developing a mathematical model that can be used to better understand how this ecosystem ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive -- until now. A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the ...
Nov. 16, 2024 — Fish stocks along the West African coast have declined significantly over the past five decades, threatening food security and the livelihoods of the fishing communities that depend on them, ...
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Nov. 15, 2024 — Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms, which are essential to the ocean's carbon cycle. A recent study reveals that these populations are shrinking at an alarming rate due to ocean ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — The protein in sea lettuce, a type of seaweed, is a promising complement to both meat and other current alternative protein sources. Seaweed also contains many other important nutrients, and is grown ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching in high temperatures, according to a new ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence that mangrove forests -- which protect tropical and subtropical coastlines -- are drowning in the Maldives. Their finding indicate that rising sea level and a climate ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals in Argentina, only about a third of the seals normally expected here returned, scientists ...
Nov. 8, 2024 — Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...
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Nov. 8, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — An epidemiological study found that 56 percent of a large breeding colony of Caspian terns died from a 2023 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at Rat Island in Washington state. ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — Wastewater contains nutrients that can overfeed algae, leading to harmful algal blooms and pollution issues in the ocean and other waterways. A new study tracked how these nutrients migrate from ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — Oceanographers showed that eddies on the leeward side of the Hawaiian Islands can supply nutrients, not only locally, but also to the opposite side of the island chain and stimulate blooms of ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — Today, a research team has proposed a new reinforcement learning framework with autonomous drones to find sperm whales and predict where they will ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — In the face of increased human pressures and climate change, a team of scientists have launched a new online tool to assist marine managers and restoration experts to bolster the resilience of marine ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — Marine animals like jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often live with algae inside their cells in a symbiotic relationship. The animals give the algae nutrients and a place to live; in return, algae ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — Paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast of Norway, where a swarm of cod overtook them, consuming over 10 million fish in a few hours. The ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — What if a microbe could help curb the climate crisis? Meet UTEX-3222, aka 'Chonkus,' a cyanobacterium discovered living in the volcanic CO2 seeps off the coast of Vulcano, Sicily. Chonkus ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the southernmost living mammals, are ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — A research collaboration has developed a simple model to help inform the complex decision-making that goes into managing water quality and fishery output in Lake Erie and similar ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Once abundant, the massive, colorful clam is now locally extinct in many regions, with a critical drop in population due to overfishing and climate ...
Oct. 25, 2024 — A new scientific study reveals the complex relationship between the impacts of climate change and the adaptive responses of coastal fishers in the southern coasts of ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — Scientists have directly measured the behavioral responses of some of the most common marine mammals to military sonar. And the finding that surprised them most was that these animals were sensitive ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — Scientists characterize novel enzymes from deep-sea microbes with a key function in the ethane degradation process, revealing surprises in the metabolism of these ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and purrs from fish feeding, looking for mates, or defending their territories, underscored by the persistent crackling of snapping shrimp. Larval ...
Oct. 22, 2024 — Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet. The changes appear to be an unexpected consequence of climate change, related to changing ...
Oct. 22, 2024 — Biologists are working to save one of the most endangered white shark populations on the planet. The research team located signs of the remaining white sharks in the Sicilian ...
Oct. 21, 2024 — In a massive research project spanning five years and stretching the length of the Northeast seaboard, scientists have created a spatial map of the sea that shows how individual fishing communities ...
Friday, November 8, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
- Remote Control Eddies: Upwelled Nutrients Boost Productivity Around Hawaiian Islands
- New Methods for Whale Tracking and Rendezvous Using Autonomous Robots
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- New Genetic Web Tool to Help Restore Climate-Resilient Marine Ecosystems
- Algae Research Provides Insight on Immune Health
- Sinuses Prevented Prehistoric Crocodile Relatives from Deep Diving
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- Oceanographers Record the Largest Predation Event Ever Observed in the Ocean
- Newly Discovered Cyanobacteria Could Help Sequester Carbon from Oceans and Factories
- Weddell Seals in the Antarctic Strategically Time Their Most Extreme Dives to Maximize Foraging
Monday, October 28, 2024
- Climate, Dead Zones and Fish: Solving a 'wicked Problem' In Lake Erie and Beyond
- Giant Clam Declared Critically Endangered After the Latest Assessment
Friday, October 25, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Dolphins Sense Military Sonar at Much Lower Levels Than Regulators Predict
- Breathing Deep: A Metabolic Secret of Ethane-Consuming Archaea Unraveled
- Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage Growth of a New Species of Coral Larvae
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- Paws of Polar Bears Sustaining Ice-Related Injuries in a Warming Arctic
- Researcher Works to Preserve the White Shark in the Mediterranean Sea
Monday, October 21, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
- American Lobster Population, Habitat Preferences Shifting, Study Finds
- Better Ocean Connectivity Boosts Reef Fish Populations
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- New Method for Measuring Luminescence Lifetime Offers Breakthrough in Scientific Imaging
- Plankton Balloon to Six Times Their Size in Newly Discovered Mode of Oceanic Travel
- New Discovery Reveals How Diatoms Capture Carbon Dioxide So Effectively
- Plastic Pollution Sounds Just Like Food to Deep-Diving Whales
- Aquaculture Uses Far More Wild Fish Than Previously Estimated, Study Finds
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Alaska's Iliamna Lake Harbor Seals Genetically Isolated from Entire Pacific Ocean
- One in Three Plants Call Islands Home: Many at Risk
Monday, October 14, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
- Severe Cold-Water Bleaching and Mortality of Deep-Water Reef Observed in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
- Evolution in Real Time
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
- Plenty More Fish in the Sea? Environmental Protections Account for Around 10 Percent of Fish Stocks on Coral Reefs
- A Compost in the Sea That Produces Oxygen
- Whale Shark Shipping Collisions May Increase as Oceans Warm
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- Oyster Reefs Once Thrived Along Europe's Coasts -- Now They're Gone
- Nanostructures in the Deep Ocean Floor Hint at Life's Origin
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- Bottlenose Dolphins 'smile' At Each Other While Playing
- Scientists Use Tiny 'backpacks' On Turtle Hatchlings to Observe Their Movements
Monday, September 30, 2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- These Fish Use Legs to Taste the Seafloor
- Dead Coral Skeletons Hinder Reef Regeneration by Sheltering Seaweed
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Drone Footage Provides New Insight Into Gray Whales' Acrobatic Feeding Behavior
- Deep-Sea Discovery Shines Light on Life in the Twilight Zone
- Ancient Reef-Builders Dodged Extinction -- At Least Temporarily
- Humbug Damselfish Use 'motion Dazzle' To Evade Predators
- Fossils from the Adriatic Sea Show a Recent and Worrying Reversal of Fortunes
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Extreme Polar Light Environment of the North and South Poles Sustains Biodiversity
- Deeper Corals May Help Shallow Reefs Recover in the Florida Keys
- Leading Scientists Redefine 'sustainability' To Save the Ocean and Feed a Hungry and Warming Planet
- How Remarkable Diversity in Heat Tolerance Can Help Protect Coral Reefs
Friday, September 20, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Explaining Dramatic Planet-Wide Changes After World's Last 'Snowball Earth' Event
- Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts
- Sea Surface Temperature Record in the Southwestern Pacific: Coral Colony from Fiji Reveals Warmest Temperatures in Over 600 Years
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Monday, September 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- How El Nino and Mega Ocean Warming Caused the Greatest-Ever Mass Extinction
- Microbe Dietary Preferences Influence the Effectiveness of Carbon Sequestration in the Deep Ocean
- New Fossil Fish Species Scales Up Evidence of Earth's Evolutionary March
- Zebrafish 'taste' Oxygen: A Breakthrough in Respiratory Biology
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- How the Oceans' Most Abundant Bacteria Impact Global Nutrient Flows
- Beyond Needles: Introducing a New, Nature-Based Approach for Delivering Cargo Into Egg Cells
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
- Due to Humans, Salish Sea Waters Are Too Noisy for Resident Orcas to Hunt Successfully
- What's Really 'fueling' Harmful Algae in Florida's Lake Okeechobee?
- Surprising Hormone-Related Gene Activity Discovered in the Early Larval Stage of the Malabar Grouper
Monday, September 9, 2024
- With AI, Extreme Microbe Reveals How Life's Building Blocks Adapt to High Pressure
- Crown-of-Thorns Sea Stars Thrive in Degraded Coral Habitats
- Sharks Are Abandoning Stressed Coral Reefs in Warming Oceans
- How Japanese Eels Escape from Their Predator's Stomach
Friday, September 6, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024
- New Species of Antarctic Dragonfish Highlights Its Threatened Ecosystem
- TB Under the Sea: A Marine Sponge Microbe Provides Insights Into the Evolution of Tuberculosis
Thursday, August 29, 2024
- Number of Fish Species at Risk of Extinction Fivefold Higher Than Previous Estimates, According to a New Prediction
- Scientists Discover How Starfish Get 'legless'
- Ancient Sea Cow Attacked by a Crocodile and Sharks Sheds New Light on Prehistoric Food Chains
- Land-Sea 'tag-Team' Devastated Ocean Life Millions of Years Ago Reveal Scientists
- Measuring Microplastic Pollution in the Marine Food Chain
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- Listen Up: New Insights Into Little Penguins' Sensitivity to Noise
- Rain or Shine? How Rainfall Impacts Size of Sea Turtle Hatchlings
Monday, August 26, 2024
- Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea Raises Questions About Extraterrestrial Life
- What Microscopic Fossilized Shells Tell Us About Ancient Climate Change
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
- Antarctica Vulnerable to Invasive Species Hitching Rides on Plastic and Organic Debris
- A Deep Dive for Environmental Data on Coastal Oceans
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Monday, August 19, 2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024
- U.S. Capable of Achieving Seafood Independence
- As Human Activities Expand in Antarctica, Scientists Identify Crucial Conservation Sites
- Warming Waters and Nutrient Overload: A Dangerous Combination Threatening Our Rivers and Lakes