A new study led by an international team, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has discovered that ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

It was identified from a collection of small fossilized teeth found within the Ste. Genevieve Formation, a layer of limestone ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Limpets live in one of the most extreme environments on Earth, where highly acidic waters dissolve their shells, requiring the snail to continuously rebuild new protective layers. Found at 3,053 m (10 ...

Eunice siphoninsidiator, or the tube ambushing marine bristle worm, was discovered within the structure of glass sponges by a ...

Beneath the ocean's surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth's most bizarre and fascinating creatures. These deep-sea inhabitants have evolved extraordinary adaptations to ...

Some of the creatures that call the depths of the WZFZ home were undiscovered until 2017, and now, a manned deep-sea mission has brought more new species into the light. “From October 2022 to ...

Most are unicellular, but with features that disqualify them from grouping with other types of life like animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and archaea. In the ocean, some protists function like ...