Penguin Poop Is Turning Antarctica Green, and Scientists Are Concerned
Penguins may be transforming Antarctica’s snowy coastline in an unexpected way. A new study reveals how nutrients from…
Wild blacktip sharks can hear sounds from nearly 250 feet away and pinpoint where they come from; Florida experiments reveal how the predators locate sound underwater
The study also points to the importance of behavioural experiments in the natural environment. Sound does not behave…
Scientists Found a Hairy-Legged Sea Spider With a Nightmare Mouth
A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin. Credit: Cormac Toler-Scott Two newly described Salish…
Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior
Artist’s impression of plesiosaurs feeding on the sea floor. Credit: Lente ArtemieffUnusual fossils from an ancient North Sea…
Scientists Found a Deep-Sea ‘Death Pool’ That Vanished. It May Show How Earth’s First Life Survived
Marine ecologists used to call them “black pools of death.” Only as far back as a decade ago,…
‘Heartbreaking and extremely rare’: Mother humpback whale carries stillborn calf through the ocean; scientists explain the unusual behaviour
A mother humpback whale was filmed repeatedly returning to her stillborn calf off Australia’s Gold Coast, displaying prolonged…
Scientists Film Dolphins Using Seashells As Hunting Tools
Adult female dolphin captured on film by UniSC researchers while ‘shelling’ to catch fish. Credit: University of the…
Scientists Uncover New Clues to a Long-Standing Bonnethead Shark Mystery
A detailed study of Florida bonnetheads found that their unusual sex-specific head shapes emerge through growth rather than…
Meet Ryoya Sugimoto: The Japanese teenager who spotted strange jellyfish at a dock and helped scientists identify a species new to science
Representative Image of diverse jellyfish species drifting through Japanese coastal waters (AI-generated image) In 2018, 13-year-old Ryoya Sugimoto…
Bull sharks in Fiji repeatedly meet at the same reef, and scientists found they slightly prefer spending time with relatives |
Representative Image of bull sharks gathering at a coral reef and displaying social behavior (AI-generated image) Bull sharks…
Blue whales can weigh 330,000 pounds, eat six tons of krill a day and communicate through powerful underwater songs |
The blue whale is not merely the biggest animal alive today. At roughly 33 metres in length, it…
Scientists discover Greenland sharks can survive for centuries with functioning eyesight, overturning the long-held belief that they are blind |
Greenland sharks entered popular science writing on the strength of one number, 400 years. Some individuals swimming in…