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The teen enlisted the help of one of the world’s top experts when the specimens he collected grew into something he didn’t ...

an animal closely related to jellyfish, according to a Feb. 28 study published in the journal Plankton and Benthos Research. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our ...

Every year, Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection Curator Greg Rouse and ... Traditionally, the person who first describes a newfound animal is entitled to name it, and now Scripps is inviting you ...

In early February our Delta flight from Paris to Minneapolis just missed the very southern tip of Greenland and scratched my ...

This region experienced “Irmageddon” in 2017 and turtles were scarce after the hurricane owing to drastic changes to the benthic habitats (plants and animals living on the seafloor ...

In their new publication, Bijleveld and colleagues show that the top four most important benthic animals are shifting. First, the cockle was the most important species in terms of meat weight ...

Sea life in the seafloor of New Zealand’s most productive and important commercial fishing ground shows resilience to disturbance, according to a new study published in the New Zealand Journal of ...