Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

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Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

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For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

Sound is the primary means of tracking subs in vast ocean expanses, and research shows that it’s behaving differently as the seas warm. By Jacob Judah Reporting from London Submarines are among ...

“Dead zones” are deadly: Few or no organisms can survive in their oxygen-depleted, or hypoxic, waters. Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead zones become ...

Data from the Argo Program – a global array of nearly 4,000 robotic floats that measure the temperature and salinity in the upper 2,000 metres of the ocean – showed in some areas this layer ...

While the kids have all returned to school this week, the fish have never left. Many studies have been done on why fish school and interesting theories abound about this synchronized natural ...