Sep 5, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have discovered a new species of the wrasse genus Iniistius living in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. The eclipse-spot razor wrasse (Iniistius...

Jul 31, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have described a new species of the shark genus Heterodontus from northwestern Australia based on six whole specimens and a single egg...

Jul 10, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Harvard University’s Professor Avi Loeb and colleagues have discovered at least 50 tiny spherical iron fragments near the fireball path of the first...

Jun 23, 2023 by News Staff

Olympicetus thalassodon is one of several that are helping us understand the early history and diversification of modern dolphins, porpoises and other...

Jun 21, 2023 by Natali Anderson

On January 15, 2022, Hunga Volcano in Tonga produced the most violent eruption in the modern satellite era, sending a water-rich plume at least 58 km (36...

Mar 22, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute, the University of Sydney and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory have described...

Feb 14, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from the Kyoto University Museum and elsewhere have described a new species of the fish genus Coradion from Australian waters. Coradion calendula....

Feb 3, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The three new species of nautiluses belong to the genus Nautilus and represent populations on the easternmost edge of the overall habitat range of the...

Dec 27, 2022 by News Staff

In new research, led by the University of California, Santa Cruz and Princeton University, scientists reconstructed the history of sea level at the Bering...

Dec 19, 2022 by Natali Anderson

The Eastern Tropical Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus nuuanu) prefers the deep waters off southern Baja California, the Pacific coast of...

Dec 12, 2022 by News Staff

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s Baja California at 12:40 p.m. ET on December 10, 2022....

Dec 8, 2022 by News Staff

Ten previously undescribed strains of microbial predators isolated from geographically distinct marine habitats — including coral reefs of Curaçao,...

Nov 29, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Named Galeus friedrichi, the new species is the third species of the catshark genus Galeus — after Galeus sauteri and Galeus schultzi — documented...

Nov 14, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists have described a new species of the neotropical orchid bee genus Eufriesea from the Islas Marías of Nayarit State, México in the Pacific. Eufriesea...

Nov 8, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Cymatioa cooki, a species of small bivalve mollusk previously only known from the Pleistocene period, has been found living intertidally near Santa Barbara,...

Oct 13, 2022 by News Staff

Paraliparis selti, or the Blue Atacama snailfish, lives in the hadal zone (waters deeper than 6,000 m) of the Atacama Trench in southeast Pacific Ocean. This...

Oct 5, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Sep 30, 2022 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Curtin University and Peking University has used a supercomputer to simulate how a supercontinent forms and found that because...

Aug 25, 2022 by News Staff

The sea cows originated in the Tethys Sea, between southern Europe and northern Africa, during the latest part of the Paleocene epoch, according to a new...

Aug 2, 2022 by News Staff

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...