Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
The Houtman Abrolhos Islands, off Western Australia, where corals appear to be exceptionally heat-tolerant Bill Bachman/Alamy Coral reefs…
It’s The Size Of A Golf Ball
This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in…
Sperm Whales Speak With a Complex Alphabet and Even Have ‘Vowels,’ Study Finds
Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that…
The One Arm an Octopus Will Never Risk in a Fight—Its Sex Arm
Webfoot octopus (Amphioctopus fangsiao) male with its mating arm curled up (upper left). Credit: Keijiro Haruki For an…
Scientists Discover 24 New Species and New Branch of Life in Area Slated for Deep Sea Mining
A patch of seafloor targeted for future mining has given us a blunt reminder that we don’t really…
‘It was born before Isaac Newton’: Greenland shark that may have lived since the 1600s goes viral |
A viral social media post has renewed attention on the Greenland shark. Scientists believe the species can live…
Commercial fishing amplifies impacts of increasing temperature on predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystems
Tucker, M. A. & Rogers, T. L. Examining predator–prey body size, trophic level and body mass across marine…
Meet The Fish That Can Recognize Human Faces — A Biologist Explains
A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the…
Scientists Solved the Mystery of the Shark That Bites Perfect Circles
You rarely catch a cookiecutter shark in action. Instead, you notice the marks it leaves behind: neat, circular…
No Red Blood Cells? No Problem, For This Noodlefish
Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of…
Top new species from 2025
Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient…
UH study reveals how ocean’s most abundant bacteria diversify
Reading time: 2 minutesResearchers sample surface seawater as a part of the Kāneʻohe Time Series. (Photo credit: Kelle…