The more you look at them, the clearer it becomes that lampreys are a bit weird.
Shifts in the distribution of Spectacled Eiders, a predatory bird at the top of the Bering Sea's benthic food web, indicate possible changes in the Arctic's marine ecosystem, according to new research.
Team call in Michelin-starred chefs to help crack challenge of mimicking texture of seafood
The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, one of the longest running sea turtle conservancy programs in the U.S., reported some unparalleled results with turtle nesting this year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, since a large portion of 2020 has been spent indoors by humans due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, animal populations have been thriving - and that's especially true for sea turtles.
A Mexican fish species has been "brought back from extinction" after a decades-long rescue mission.
In his new book, marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith reveals the tiny, magical world of pygmy seahorses, one of the most elusive fish on the planet
The rise and fall of a Canadian province's cod supplies points to the danger of industrial-scale fishing.
It was confirmed that the juvenile female North Atlantic right whale suffered from a chronic entanglement.
Mexico's elegant terns have begun nesting farther north in years when their traditional food is scarce
Eerie photographs recovered from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America are now being published for the first time
Tragic news for the Freediving community out of Dahab as "Chief Of Safety" Stephen Keenan dies at the Blue Hole
Evolutionary and developmental biologists have discovered that sea anemones display a genomic landscape with a complexity of regulatory elements similar to that of fruit flies or other animal model systems. This suggests that this principle of gene regulation is already 600 million years old and dates back to the common ancestor of human, fly and sea anemone.
Hooray, Bake Off is back on telly, so we asked our team of specialists to put a pinny on and bake up some answers to the most delicious questions about cake.
By utilizing the majestic birds to monitor huge swaths of the sea, law enforcement and conservationists could keep better tabs on illicit activities
Paul Hollywood, Sandi Toksvig, Noel Fielding, Prue Leith © Love Productions / Channel 4 / Mark Bourdillon 1. Stop whipping cream when it forms stiff peaks If you carry on, fat molecules inside the cream break up and the air bubbles making the cream all fluffy collapse, then you’re on the way to making butter. How does cream get ‘whipped’? Love Productions/BBC 2. Stop an apple turning brown by placing it under water You need to inhibit the browning enzyme converting natural chemicals called
There may be other explanations for 150,000 missing Adélie penguins presumed dead in Antarctica.
A petition calling for a much longer recreational food fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador has collected more than 2,200 signatures. The tour operator who started it has been pushing for changes to the food fishery for about a decade.
Researchers hope to use bubbles trapped in ice to help predict effect of CO2 on the Earth’s climate
A review of dozens of key ecological studies has found very little evidence to support one of the field's commonly held beliefs: Cheating is widespread among 'mutualists,' species that cooperate with one another for mutual benefit.
Researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies spotted the whales near the Wood End Lighthouse recently.
Alex Weber discovered more than 50,000 balls in the ocean near coastal California golf courses. When golf balls degrade, as these were doing, they release plastic particles and toxic chemicals.
“This is an American birthright. I never realized it until I got to Alaska and really saw the generosity of the land here.”
Plant-gorging grass carp probably could survive in all of the Great Lakes, scientists said Monday, adding that if the fish get established, they might significantly damage the environment.
Today on the podcast, James and I discuss what he learned about the human body and about our connection to the ocean as he followed freedivers around the world
Collaboration between ecologists and climate researchers has generated fascinating new insight into how seabirds are affected by climate change.
Two of the animals on the Isle of Rum died after becoming tangled in discarded fishing rope.
In 1859, Charles Darwin coined the term "living fossils" to describe organisms that show little species diversity or physical differences from their ancestors in the fossil record. In a new study, Yale researchers provide the first evidence of a biological mechanism that explains how living fossils occur in nature.
For the first time biologists report 'irrefutable evidence' that tiny blackpoll warblers complete a nonstop flight from about 1,410 to 1,721 miles (2,270 to 2,770 km) in just two to three days. For this work the scientists fitted geolocator packs on 20 birds in Vermont and 20 more in Nova Scotia. They were able to recapture three birds from the Vermont group and two from the Nova Scotia group for analyses.
Hull of research vessel officially known as RRS David Attenborough launches into the River Mersey
Have you dined on Arapaima? South Americans eat the fish regularly, and now researchers are studying whether it could be a viable food fish in the United States.
Summertime plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean play a significant role in generating brighter clouds overhead.
Seasonal flow variability is decreasing as climate change alters Earth’s systems, creating challenges for water management.
For more than a decade, Todd Steiner has lead teams of scientists, volunteers, and dive masters to collect data on highly migratory species that use Costa Rica's Cocos Island for refuge.
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. An overarching theme in the story of evolution, at least over the past half billion years or so, is rising complexity. There are other themes, of course, but life has undoubtedly become more complicated since its origin. Early cells globbed together to form multicellular coalitions. Those developed more complex bodies and lifestyles as […]
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Meet the coffinfish.
The account is beluga whale feeding and nothing but beluga whale feeding, but sometimes that's all you need.
Global warming meets the circle of life: water heats up, krill gets killed off, krill-eating birds suffer.
Passenger photos recovered from an infamous wreck have finally been published.
Remarkable find suggests group behavioural rules are very ancient. Nick Carne reports.
A study sheds new light on how the rare Pacific footballfish combines fluorescence with the bioluminescence to attract prey.
Climate change is having a serious impact on the world's marine species, here's how salmon in the Pacific Northwest are coping.
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Project will trace tortoiseshell products in shops back to where they were poached
The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to decline over the next few months but scientists say that a La Niña event could start later this year.
About 1000 people have rushed to try and save a pod of pilot whales that stranded in the Coromandel. A number of pilot whales have stranded on...
The species can climb waterfalls and reaches back to Gondwanaland – but there are fears polluted runoff has proven fatal
