Using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), marine biologists have discovered six new species of carnivorous sponges in the family Cladorhizidae from the...
Marine biologists have identified a new species of the skate genus Leucoraja lurking in the depths of the Southwestern Indian Ocean.
The brown longnose...
Researchers in China have mapped the entire genome of Chiridota heheva, a species of sea cucumber collected at a depth of 2,428 m during a submarine trip...
Before humans arrived, giant tortoises occurred on many islands in the western Indian Ocean. In new research, Professor Uwe Fritz from the Senckenberg...
Researchers have for the first time assembled the high-quality chromosome-level genome of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), one of only...
About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. The impact eradicated...
A team of ichthyologists from the Kagoshima University and the Kagoshima University Museum has discovered a new species of the fish genus Pteragogus living...
An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of the fish genus Cirrhilabrus living in the waters off Maldives and Sri Lanka.
The rose-veiled...
Atmospheric lakes are long-lived pools of water vapor that occur over the western Indian Ocean and bring water to dry lowlands along East Africa’s coastline.
Long-lived...
A team of marine biologists from the United States, Spain and Taiwan has discovered a new species of the snapper genus Etelis living in Indo-West Pacific...
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the world’s largest fish, growing to maximum known sizes of 18 m (59 feet) total length. A new study led by University...
A team of researchers from South Africa has discovered that the Indo-Pacific undulated moray eel (Gymnothorax undulatus), first described by the French...
A team of marine biologists has discovered two new species of six-gilled sawsharks living in the waters of the West Indian Ocean.
Pliotrema kajae, adult...
A team of researchers from Princeton University and Universities of Miami and Chicago has found drops of ancient seawater in the sediment cores from the...
Geologists at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have confirmed the existence of a small piece of an ancient continent,...
A reentry of a suspected piece of space junk from a very high orbit on November 13, 2015, offers a great opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge...
A group of marine biologists headed by Dr Robert Vrijenhoek from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has described five new species of deep water...
A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean.
Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri, Ras Mohammed,...
According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the islands Reunion and Mauritius are hiding a Precambrian microcontinent...
