Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

In the middle of the night, bundled up to protect against below-freezing temperatures, Johns Hopkins researcher Rajat Mittal dropped a large net into the dark ocean near the Antarctic Circle. He and ...

Mollusks, from land snails and slugs to oysters and mussels in the sea, have a few things in common. They have a head. They have a soft middle part that holds their organs. Then, some have a muscle ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Beachcombers know that seashells appear in an endless array of colors and shapes, and researchers have just discovered that this variation extends to the molecular level. In fact, each shell is as ...

Scientists have long known that ocean acidification is leading to a decline in Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) in the U.S.’s Pacific Northwest region, but a new study in the American Geophysical ...

At the beach, take only pictures, leave only footprints and sandcastles. The mollusks have enough problems already. Sunrise falls on a lightning whelk on the beach at Sanibel Island in southwestern ...

The study from Queen’s University Belfast academics has led to 184 deep-sea species being added to the global Red List of Threatened Species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ...