Seamounts attract sharks and marine predators, with 41 times more sharks than open waters. These mountains act as social hubs ...

Undersea mountains are key locations for predators—with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Climate change is depleting vital ocean nutrients, disrupting marine ecosystems, and threatening food webs, a new study finds.

Of 15 global Earth system models of how climate change will impact oceans, those that project a future decline in primary ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how ...

Choanoflagellates envelop and digest still smaller cells. Ocean ecosystems depend on these predators to consume plant-like ...

Although models suggest a connection between ocean temperatures and surface ocean ... that plays a key role in the health of marine food webs -- in southern hemisphere oceans.

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In ...