marine biology

Scientists examine floating traces of DNA left by fish to better understand New York’s aquatic life.

Scientists bring marine plankton back to life to study past climate change.

Nearly half of the corals in a nature preserve off Oahu bleached in recent years, according to a study.

Stylophora pistillata, a reef coral in the Northern Red Sea, thrived in simulated global-warming conditions.

Kuphus polythalamia is a worm-like mollusk that can reach up to 155 cm in length, is encased in a hard, tusk-like shell, and lives in sulfur-rich mud.

Aerial survey results reveal severe coral bleaching across much of the massive reef system.

The little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) uses its specialized electrosensory organ to detect electrical fields produced by its prey.

The marine predators may use the mechanosensory hairs to detect fish that are hiding motionless on the seafloor.

Certain microbes express genes in a methane-production pathway, offering an explanation for puzzlingly high levels of the gas in some lakes.

Data collected by elephant seals in Antarctic waters provide a closer look at the processes driving ocean circulation.

Researchers reveal how seals affect vegetation patterns and influence the movement of feral horse populations on Sable Island in Canada.

The UC Davis oceanographer reconstructs ancient climate and studies the present impacts of global warming in an attempt to stave off environmental damage.

The University of St. Andrews behavioral ecologist studies the social structures and behaviors of whales and dolphins, recording and analyzing their acoustic communications.

Watching the decomposition of pig carcasses anchored to the seafloor is helping forensic researchers understand what to expect of human remains dumped in the ocean.

Marine pathogens flourish in oceans that are warmer and more acidic.

As technology takes science deeper into the world’s oceans, researchers are discovering reef systems far from warm, shallow tropical waters.

In the planet’s warming and acidifying oceans, species from corals to lobsters and fish are succumbing to pathogenic infection.

Climate change is causing ocean acidification, and shellfish, such as oysters, are bearing the brunt of the shift.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute researcher Peter Tyack expresses the beauty of marine mammal communication.

Watch what happens when marine organisms have their way with a sunken pig carcass.