Bioluminescent plankton are marine organisms capable of emitting visible light through chemical reactions in their bodies. This unique biochemical trait is attributed to a luciferin-luciferase ...

The newly described archaeon Sukunaarchaeum mirabile carries the smallest known genome among Archaea and blurs life’s limits.

Back from the brink. Under a microscope at Chester Zoo, UK, a greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) awaits its ...

While the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provided a framework for ocean governance, the BBNJ ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...

Presenting their provisional findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow, the scientists say an additional 2–10 ...

The scientists behind the first-of-its-kind experiment in the Gulf of Maine said they had sequestered carbon without harming marine life.

The Navy's proposal to build a new dry dock in Bremerton includes mitigation work to restore shorelines in three places around Kitsap County.

There is a tiny cyclops among your oldest ancestors, and humans share these remarkable ancestral roots with all other ...

The scientists examined the lineages of two groups of bivalves—marine invertebrates that include clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops—that successfully inhabit the deep sea. They found that some ...

Divers off Japan’s coast discovered a panda-like marine creature at 10–20 metres deep. Scientists later confirmed it as a ...

Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, ...