We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Scientists have made the first comprehensive marine wildlife size database to help scientists better understand ocean ...

As a child, I had developed an intense fear of the "monsters of the deep" depicted in books about great white sharks in the school library. Once I interacted with sharks, this fear quickly transformed ...

World ‘Armored’ creatures with ‘whip’ tails and four other new species discoveries By Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization June 6, 2025 1:26 PM ...

Another 2023 study estimated that scientists had identified fewer than 1,000 of up to 8,000 species in one region of the deep sea called the Clarion–Clipperton zone, which stretches the width of ...

SINGAPORE - Microplastics have been found in marine animals across Singapore’s coastal areas in a new study, with researchers discovering these plastic bits not just in the animals’ digestive ...

Scientists Race To Identify Deep-Sea Species Amid Growing Mining Interest The first stocktake of data from scientific explorations in the CCZ (Clarion-Clipperton Zone) , published in 2023, found ...

As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic species. Campaigners warn that mining in the waters between Hawaii and ...

Species whose ranges might shift polewards due to warmer water include lionfish, sea snakes, crown-of-thorns starfish and a number of different types of venomous jellies.

In March of last year, Adolph and one of his students, Diederik Boonman, used databases and DNA samples to confirm the inch-long, tentacled sea creature was a new invasive species.