The discovery challenges a 370-million-year-old assumption that only vertebrates could be top ocean predators.

Researchers led by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa have found that a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean on floating plastic ...

Though the idea of roaming around boneless is foreign to us as humans, it is actually the state of the vast majority of life ...

Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the oceans, which remain largely unexplored. To date, only a small fraction of an estimated two million total ...

Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.

Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of ...

The deep ocean off southern California has historically been a dumping ground for the pesticide DDT and other industrial wastes. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and collaborators are investigating ...