Rice was a staple crop in the ancestral Austronesian regions of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia, but it was unknown in any of the Pacific Islands at the...
Starting as early as 1500 BCE in the Mariana Islands, people used distinctive rigging of cut and drilled pieces of cowrie shells, as parts of compound...
In new research, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Australian National University and the University of Guam analyzed...
A strange sound in the Mariana Trench notable for its complexity likely represents the discovery of a new minke whale call, says a team of marine researchers...
In November 2014, Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor discovered a seamount, or underwater mountain, 28,500 feet (8,700 m) on the ocean...
Biologists from the National University of Singapore have identified a new deep-water species of box crab.
Calappa karenae (Roy Kropp / Zootaxa / Magnolia...
