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How Rising Temperatures Affect Ocean Predation
A study yields insights into how predator-prey dynamics may shift with climate change, but many questions remain.
How Rising Temperatures Affect Ocean Predation
How Rising Temperatures Affect Ocean Predation

A study yields insights into how predator-prey dynamics may shift with climate change, but many questions remain.

A study yields insights into how predator-prey dynamics may shift with climate change, but many questions remain.

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Octopus in tank lined with black dots
Do Invertebrates Have Emotions?
Natalia Mesa, PhD | May 26, 2022 | 10+ min read
And how do scientists go about answering that question?
large brown moth
Science Snapshot: Insect Resurrection
Lisa Winter | May 20, 2022 | 1 min read
The potentially-invasive moth hasn’t been seen in a century.
Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea
Ubiquitous Little Earthworms Might Have Got Around on Driftwood
Annie Melchor | Nov 1, 2021 | 5 min read
Researchers also tried placing the worms on pigeons as part of a study aiming to uncover how the tiny invertebrates ended up all around the world.
Photographs of animals
Numerosity Around the Animal Kingdom
Catherine Offord | Oct 1, 2021 | 2 min read
Research in recent decades has explored how animals other than humans perceive different numbers of objects
An underwater photo of the solitary tunicate Polycarpa mytiligera growing on a coral in the Red Sea
When Severed, This Solitary Tunicate Regrows as Three New Animals
Amanda Heidt | May 13, 2021 | 4 min read
While regeneration has long been the domain of colonial tunicates, a solitary species of sea squirt was able to regenerate into multiple, fully functional individuals within a month of being cut up.
Invertebrate Density Influences Plant Flowering Times, Abundance
Catherine Offord | Feb 1, 2021 | 2 min read
An experimental study explores how plant communities may be affected by future declines in invertebrate populations.
John Pearse and a group of other people on a rocky shore
Marine Biologist John Pearse Dies
Shawna Williams | Aug 18, 2020 | 2 min read
The retired University of California, Santa Cruz, professor was known for his work on invertebrate reproduction, kelp ecology, and Antarctic marine life.
diving beetle eggs
Diving Beetle Adults and Larvae Dismember, Eat Tadpoles: Study
Catherine Offord | Jan 13, 2020 | 2 min read
The invertebrate predators prey on and lay their eggs near emerging tadpoles, potentially threatening the conservation of endangered frogs, researchers find.
Jumping Spiders Produce Milk to Feed Their Young
Diana Kwon | Nov 29, 2018 | 3 min read
Without access to their mothers’ milk, Toxeus magnus offspring die within the first 10 days of life.
What Was Lost in the Fire that Destroyed Brazil’s Largest Museum
Marcia Triunfol | Sep 4, 2018 | 2 min read
Scientists work to help relocate colleagues who lost everything.
Image of the Day: Velvet Worm
Sukanya Charuchandra | Aug 14, 2018 | 1 min read
Researchers have recently identified a many-legged invertebrate from the Silurian period.
Deep Diver: A Profile of Cindy Van Dover
Anna Azvolinsky | Jul 1, 2018 | 8 min read
As the only woman who has piloted the deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, Van Dover is among the few researchers to have explored hydrothermal vents firsthand.
Starfish in the Deep Sea Can See
Abby Olena, PhD | Feb 6, 2018 | 3 min read
A study of 13 starfish species reveals that even animals that live at depths where sunlight doesn’t reach have functioning eyes.
Coastal Critters Make Epic Voyages After 2011 Tsunami
Ashley Yeager | Sep 28, 2017 | 3 min read
Marine species survived rafting thousands of kilometers on debris swept into the water by the giant wave, scientists say.
Earliest Deuterostome Fossils Described
Kerry Grens | Jan 30, 2017 | 1 min read
These millimeter-size sea creatures lived 540 million years ago.
Stressed Shore Crabs
Karen Zusi | Nov 12, 2015 | 2 min read
Electrical shocks cause a physiological stress response in invertebrates previously thought incapable of feeling pain.
Ravenous Invasive Worm Now in U.S.
Bob Grant | Jun 25, 2015 | 1 min read
Researchers have found the New Guinea flatworm, one of the world’s most invasive species, in Florida, putting native ecosystems at serious risk.
Virus May Explain “Melting” Sea Stars
Molly Sharlach | Nov 19, 2014 | 2 min read
Researchers discover a densovirus that is associated with sea star wasting disease.
Predator Demoted
Jef Akst | Oct 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Extinct, giant arthropods, long assumed to be top predators of ancient seas, didn’t have sharp enough eyesight to be refined hunters.
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