I built a saltwater aquarium using only seaweed and seawater collected from the ocean. Over six months it developed into a ...

Reading time: 3 minutes Some of the animals identified in the deep-sea that spend their life in the benthic boundary layer.(Photo credit: Gabrielle Ellis) An enormous but poorly understood region of ...

Using new acoustic technologies that her team developed, Kelly Benoit-Bird explores deep ocean ecosystems through the ...

Little is known about the long-term effects of deep-sea mining on the organic matter that supports life on the seafloor.

The post A New Salish Sea Spider Is So Grimy It Hosts Its Own Ecosystem appeared first on A-Z Animals. Over 1,500 sea spiders are known worldwide. However, scientists believe the known species are ...

Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely unexplored fauna. Deep-sea animals, which have adapted to stable and extreme ...

Scientists have discovered the deepest known animal ecosystem on Earth, thriving almost 10 kilometres beneath the Pacific Ocean where sunlight never reaches. At depths of up to 9,533 metres, ...

This panel convened to discuss how focusing our attention on wild animals, particularly capstone and indicator species, is a useful paradigm for considering restoration and conservation priorities.

Washington, DC—The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was founded to regulate whaling. Today, it increasingly focuses on the value of live whales for planetary health. A new workshop report ...

The benthic realm of the Southern Ocean, encompassing seafloor habitats from shallow rocky shores to deep continental slopes, underpins critical ecosystem functions and global biogeochemical cycles.

We will build decision support systems to deliver high-resolution forecasts of future ocean conditions in all U.S. marine regions and the Great Lakes. The Changing Ecosystems and Fisheries Initiative ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...