1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (440+ words) Scientists have shown conclusively for the first time that tiny marine organisms in polar oceans survived the mass extinction event that wiped out prehistoric dinosaurs because they needed less energy and were more tolerant to darkness. The study, led by…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (371+ words) astrobiology. com Ocean Planet Recon: MBARI and Monterey Bay Aquarium Complete Expedition to Guide Seamount Earlier this month, a team of Monterey Bay Aquarium biologists completed an expedition to Guide Seamount aboard MBARI's flagship research vessel David Packard. Led by…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (494+ words) New research helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when palaeontologists previously thought there were far fewer fossils than periods before or after it. "Palaeontologists have wondered whether this time…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (63+ words) From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean, the driest desert to the lushest jungle, Earth displays a dazzling array of lifeforms....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (347+ words) Scientists have discovered 1, 121 marine species in a single year, marking a significant step forward in efforts to document life in the world's oceans. From the "Ghost Shark' Chimaera, a distant relative of sharks and rays in the Coral Sea, to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (150+ words) astrobiology. com Biosignatures: Evidence for Endogenous Collagen in Edmontosaurus Fossil Bone Analytical Chemistry via Pub Med Reports of proteins in fossilized bones have been a subject of controversy in the scientific literature because it is assumed that fossilization results in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (10+ words) Electromagnetic (EM) sounding can constrain the electrical structure of Enceladus...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (319+ words) Can we learn about life in the deep ocean even if we don't see it? Yes we can. Thanks to environmental DNA (e DNA), we no longer need a visual sighting to know what's been in the neighborhood. Beyond the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (505+ words) Routine maintenance leads to unexpected microbial discovery in "ship goo" on the R/V Blue Heron's rudder shaft. The research vessel, which had been pulled out of Lake Erie into the Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, to fix a noisy propeller…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (195+ words) Sperm whales (Physeter macro'cephalus) communicate using series of clicks known as codas. In previous research, sperm whale codas have been shown to resemble human vowels acoustically. Based on the number of formants, two different coda quality categories have been described:…...