Monitoring a brainless sea star may seem like a curious way to go about studying robotics. But the marine invertebrate’s ...

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Strong onshore winds this week brought in one of the Gulf’s more unusual drifters, the purple sea snail. While riding my e-bike on the beach, I found around a dozen washed ashore, many of them still ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

There are many poorly understood links in the food web, often referred to as trophic relationships. Out in East Antarctica, a ...

Field expeditions in marine biology can be unpredictable. Sometimes, they yield little more than old barnacles; other times, ...

A Tasmanian sailor has returned from a months-long odyssey with tales of sea monsters, aliens and pirates after becoming one of the fastest Australians to sail the globe.

The portunid crab is native to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, but now it’s being found in the Mediterranean. Here's why ...

Oak holds immense social and ecological importance in the Indian Himalayan regions. It ensures conservation of soil, water, ...