can survive in both shallow waters and the deep ocean. They use their tube feet to eat tiny bits of algae and decaying organisms on the sea floor or plankton closer to the surface. The smallest ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A research team from National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) recently confirmed that “fecal particles” ...

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — ...

Mining of rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below ... produced mostly by plankton and other sea-dwelling ...

From "MooLoos" to painting mountains, these silly scientific suggestions could actually help with climate change.

Greenpeace on Friday warned Norway that its plans to open up its Arctic seabed to mining would cause "irreversible" damage to the entire marine ecosystem.

Although deep-sea-dwelling, plankton-eating oarfish have no interest in sinking ships or consuming sailors, they are considered by some to be reliable predicators of deep-sea earthquakes and tsunamis, ...

A new exhibit lets visitors jump straight into the strangest layer of the ocean, bringing the creatures that live in the ...

It’s one way that sea and space come together ... So that’s tens of thousands of pounds of plankton funneled through this long and twisted food chain to a tuna, which is caught to yield ...

Norway deep sea mining plans in the Arctic will cause irreversible harm to biodiversity, a new Greenpeace International report ...

Some plankton combine calcium and dissolved carbonates ... the carbon in their carcasses can create a feast for deep-sea critters and also be buried in marine sediments. Ocean deposits are by ...

Deep in the ocean ... born in the depths of the sea. The Miraculous Reef Among the branches of staghorn coral, with branches reaching upwards toward the sunlight, plankton swirl and squirm in ...