Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the USA. The cluster of cyclidan crustaceans, which has been preserved for hundreds of millions of years, shows ...

For instance, the slender mola showed no traces of jellyfish in its stomach, instead feeding on crustaceans and squid, while the sharptail mola primarily consumes filter-feeding zooplankton. Other ...

The mantis shrimp's club uses a built-in vibration shield that filters out damaging shock waves to enable it to strike with bullet-like force without breaking.

To reveal how temperature influences competition and population growth, the team focused on Daphnia pulex, a small zooplankton species that plays a vital role in freshwater food webs and water ...

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.Credit...Billy Hickey for The New York Times Supported by By Delger Erdenesanaa This ...