Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but cuttlefish can do something really special.
Male Andrea cuttlefish (Doratosepion andreanum) – quite drab to human eyes – use their birefringent arms to literally twist…
An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell.
By night that beat drops from roughly 36…
Mars is half the size of Earth, with a tenth of our planet’s mass, and at the nearest point in its orbit is over 33 million miles away. Yet new…
Historians have been reconstructing the long-lost story of two of British history’s most mysterious artefacts – a pair of spectacular…
People who don’t eat meat may be less likely than meat eaters to reach the age of 100, according to a recent study. But before you reconsider…
Spider monkeys possess a sophisticated social system, sharing “insider knowledge” about the best fruit trees in the forest rather than foraging…
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.
Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent to explore.
They range in height from tiny stacks the…
New filtration technologies that could absorb “forever chemicals” at an “ultrafast” rate have been developed.
Researchers say their…
Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers. These many-armed invertebrates traverse vertical, horizontal, and even upside-down surfaces: it seems no substrate is too rocky, slimy, sandy, or glassy. And they do so without a centralized nervous system, let alone a brain.
A new paper written…
Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news.
Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life.
In a new study, an international team of scientists and I examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large…