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Penguins and Sea Lions Help Produce New Atlas
Recording hundreds of
thousands of individual
uplinks from satellite
transmitters fitted on
penguins, albatrosses, sea
lions, and other marine
animals, conservation
... > full story
Fish Food Fight: Fish Don't Eat Trees After All, Says New Study
Recent theories suggesting
that half of fishes' food
comes from from land-based
ecosystems may not hold
water. Experiments show that
algae, not land-based
... > full story
California's Ancient Kelp Forest
The kelp forests off
southern California are
considered to be some of the
most diverse and productive
ecosystems on the planet,
yet a new study indicates
that today's kelp beds are
... > full story
Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled
With thousands of stinging
cells that can emit deadly
venom from tentacles that
can reach ten feet in
length, the 50 or so species
of box jellyfish have long
... > full story
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Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs
November 26, 2009 — Coral reefs live in some of the most nutrient deficient waters on the planet, so how do they survive? Marine biologists have discovered that certain sponges could be the key to reef survival. They ... > full story -
How Might Navy Sonar Affect Hearing of Whales and Other Marine Animals?
November 24, 2009 — Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal -- or if they hear it at ... > full story -
Global Study of Salmon Shows: 'Sustainable' Food Isn't So Sustainable
November 24, 2009 — Popular thinking about how to improve food systems often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems. Rather than pushing for organic or ... > full story -
Climate Modeling May Have Missed Something: Aquatic Creatures Mix Ocean Water by Swimming
November 23, 2009 — Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the ... > full story -
Deep-Sea World Beyond Sunlight: Explorers Census 17,650 Ocean Species on Edge of Black Abyss
November 23, 2009 — Scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world ... > full story -
Sea Stars Bulk Up to Beat the Heat
November 23, 2009 — A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer ... > full story -
Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions
November 20, 2009 — Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in open-ocean-facing settings than in epicontinental ... > full story -
Is 80-Year-Old Mistake Leading to First Species to Be Fished to Extinction?
November 19, 2009 — A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ... > full story -
Bizarre Lives of Bone-Eating Worms
November 12, 2009 — It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist in the ... > full story -
Earth's Early Ocean Cooled More Than A Billion Years Earlier Than Thought
November 12, 2009 — The global ocean covering the Earth 3.4 billion years ago was far cooler than has been thought, according to researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in rocks formed on that ancient ocean floor. ... > full story
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