More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

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Although the subjects of marine biology and biochemistry do not seem to be an obvious pairing, there are a lot of overlaps. The biochemical processes that specialized organisms have developed to live ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have demonstrated that a simple adjustment to water filtration methods can dramatically ...

In the open ocean, far from coasts and categories, there is a fish that seems to defy the logic of design. It is round where ...

According to Eric Hancock, spider crabs dance. At least, he likes to think so. Each day at work, the marine biologist walks over to the 500-gallon tank that houses 11 common spider crabs, ranging in ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. When I ...

For more than three decades, a high school marine sciences program has been making waves—in the middle of Iowa, a landlocked state more than 1,200 miles from the nearest ocean. Hundreds of students ...

Whenever George Matsumoto gets a call from an unfamiliar number, he has a good idea of who will be on the other end: a young person who dreams about living on a boat and communing with dolphins, ...

Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. '00, studies the impact of human activities on ocean ecosystems. (Courtesy) Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. ’00, prompted by a high school career test, studied communication at UCLA, ...

If you spend time on a boat, snorkeling, or looking at fish tanks, you may quickly realize that life underwater looks incredibly different than animals and other life that lives on the surface.