Many animal lovers have grown up watching amphibians since they were children. With frogs and newts living in ponds, rivers, ...

ORIGIN Universe' is a creative project that connects the birth of the universe to modern nations in a single line. Through 13 ...

A mollusk's microbial community has more to do with its family tree than its address. In other words, the composition of a ...

Our oceans are becoming more acidic, which could have major consequences for marine life. Of particular concern is what this ...

As she prepares to retire from the University of Cape Town, the palaeobiologist reflects on apartheid-era barriers, ...

FOUR KILOMETRES DOWN, SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE LIGHT WAS MAKING LIGHT In a cold, blacked-out room on a research ship off the east coast of Australia, a Belgian biologist prodded a leg ...

Somewhere on the pitch-black floor of the Pacific Ocean, 2,500 meters below the surface, towering chimneys belch superheated water dark as ink into the freezing abyss. Tube worms the length of a grown ...

New sediment tests from a research vessel in the Red Sea suggest that primordial deep-sea microbes may offer a glimpse of how life made energy before Earth had oxygen. Reading time 3 minutes Marine ...

As anyone who’s stayed up well past their bedtime knows, catching a taxi or Uber home can be a godsend, and now recent research shows that even some deep sea animals appreciate the value of bumming a ...

California sea lions are “eared seals” native to the West Coast of North America. They live in coastal waters and on beaches, docks, buoys, and jetties. They are easily trained and intelligent and are ...

Their dense, hypersaline waters can be nearly devoid of oxygen and loaded with chemicals that are toxic to most organisms, creating harsh conditions where only highly specialized microbes can thrive.