Deep ocean communities impacted by changing climate
Animals living on the abyssal plains, miles below the ocean surface, don’t usually get much to eat. Their main source of food is…
Category: Biology
Submarine canyons are oases in the deep sea and promote high species diversity
Submarine canyons play an important role in maintaining high levels of biodiversity of small invertebrates in the seafloor sediments of the…
Highly conserved DNA reveals turtles are more related to birds and crocodiles
The evolutionary origin of turtles is one of the last unanswered questions in vertebrate evolution. Paleontological and morphological…
Disco clam has rippling mirrored lips
Four years after falling in love with the disco clam – a cute little mollusk known for its underwater light show – Lindsey Dougherty has…
Spiders from 8 families prey on fish
Spiders from five different families prey on small fish in the wild, according to a systematic review published June 18, 2014 in the…
Whale and tuna are equally efficient as swimmers
A large gray whale and a much smaller skipjack tuna each propels itself through water. Which is the more efficient swimmer? It has been…
Forest loss starves fish
Debris from forests that washes into freshwater lakes supplements the diets of microscopic zooplankton and the fish that feed off them –…
Scientists reveal why life got big in the Earth’s early oceans
Why did life forms first begin to get larger and what advantage did this increase in size provide? UCLA biologists working with an…
3.5 billion-year-old microbial mats in sedimentary rock found in Australia
Evidence of 3.5 billion-year-old bacterial ecosystems found in Australia Washington, D.C.— Reconstructing the rise of life during the…
New species of nocturnal primate has a toxic bite
An international team of scientists studying the elusive nocturnal primate the slow loris in the jungles of Borneo have discovered an…