Sep. 9, 2024 — A new theory explains how juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (commonly known as starfish) can destabilize coral reefs. The 'degraded reef framework' explains how the loss of live ...

Homing is an animal's ability to navigate towards an original location, such as a breeding spot or foraging territory. Salmon ...

Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction—even those living in ...

Research has suggested that these cave-dwelling shrimp may rely on chemical cues to find their way back to underwater caves, ...

Shellfish are growing in popularity, but they’re not always the best for our health, especially as biotoxins are becoming ...

Shrimps "sniff" their way back to their underwater cave homes, reveals new research. Scientists say the tiny aquatic creatures' ability ...

For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...

Anna Turns sets sail from Plymouth Sound to explore the significance of blue carbon in marine habitats around the UK.

Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining.

The amazing ability that shrimp and other creatures, in both land and sea, have for finding their way back is known as homing ...

Scientists have identified several new marine species in a pristine underwater ecosystem recently discovered ... corals, some shrimp and a squat lobster, Virmani said. Scientists captured a ...

Each shrimp was thus given the choice between water flows native ... “We know that food availability in marine cave ...