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Fishery length, angler effort: How they relate
Published: 12/12/2018A new study suggests reducing the number of fishing days in a season doesn't reduce catch as much as some would predict. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms
Published: 12/12/2018Why did the first big, complex organisms spring to life in deep, dark oceans where food was scarce? A new study finds great depths provided a stable, life-sustaining refuge from wild temperature swing ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Coral larvae use sound to find a home on the reef
Published: 12/12/2018A new study is starting to unravel that mystery. Researchers found that the soundscape of a reef -- the combined sounds of all animals living nearby -- might play a major role in steering corals towar ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Did supernovae kill off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene?
Published: 11/12/2018The effects of a supernova -- and possibly more than one -- on large ocean life like school-bus-sized Megalodon 2.6 million years ago are detailed in a new article. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Key players in the marine nitrogen cycle can utilize cyanate and urea
Published: 10/12/2018The ammonia oxidizing archaea, or Thaumarchaeota, are amongst the most abundant marine microorganisms. Yet, we are still discovering which factors allow them to thrive in the ocean: A new publication ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Unexpected impact of hurricanes on Puerto Rico's watershed
Published: 10/12/2018Researchers have found unprecedentedly high levels of nitrate, an essential plant nutrient, in streams and watersheds of Puerto Rico for a year after two consecutive major hurricanes in 2017. This hig ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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A glimmer of hope for the world's coral reefs
Published: 10/12/2018The future of the world's coral reefs is uncertain, as the impact of global heating continues to escalate. However, according to a new study, the response of the Great Barrier Reef to extreme temperat ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon -- hundreds of times more than humans
Published: 10/12/2018Barely living 'zombie' bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface -- 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the surf ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Russian homeopathy, hiding in plain sight
Published: 10/12/2018It turns out that Russia has its very own brand of bogus medicine:"release-active drugs," or RADs. Dozens of scientific articles have been published claiming that these substances can be used to treat ... Read moreSource: genome.fieldofscience.com
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Increasing seal population will not harm largest fish stocks in the Baltic
Published: 10/12/2018Seals feeding on fish does not decrease fish stocks of Baltic cod, herring and sprat the most -- climate change, nutrient load and fisheries do, shows a new study. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath
Published: 6/12/2018By combining ocean models, animal metabolism and fossil records, researchers show that the Permian mass extinction in the oceans was caused by global warming that left animals unable to breathe. As te ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Mitigating the effect of climate change on sea turtles
Published: 6/12/2018New research has reported effective conservation strategies that can mitigate the impacts of climate warming on sea turtle nesting success. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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PLOS Computational Biology Benchmarking section call for papers
Published: 6/12/2018PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce that we’re holding a call for papers focusing on Benchmarking in computational biology. The section will focus on publishing papers that present bench ... Read moreSource: feeds.plos.org -
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Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage
Published: 5/12/2018An ancient, dolphin-like marine reptile resembles its distant relative in more than appearance, according to an international team of researchers. Molecular and microstructural analysis of a Stenopter ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Mystery of color patterns of reef fish solved
Published: 5/12/2018Scientists have solved the mystery of why some closely-related species of an iconic reef fish have vastly different colour patterns, while others look very similar. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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Human actions impact wild salmon's ability to evolve
Published: 4/12/2018Once spring-run chinook salmon disappear, they are not likely to re-emerge, indicates genetic analysis of the revered wild fish. Prompt conservation action could preserve spring-run chinook, as well a ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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How mussels handle microplastic fiber pollution
Published: 4/12/2018New research shows that mussels readily take in microplastic pollution fibers from the ocean but quickly flush most of them out again, according to a new study. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Study puts the Neotropics on the map of the world's food production centers in antiquity
Published: 3/12/2018Sambaqui societies had sophisticated diet. Study suggests that hunter-gatherer communities living in coastal Atlantic Forest areas between 8,000 and 1,000 years ago consumed a range of plants and more ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com
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New dataset expands understanding of Arctic Spring Bloom
Published: 3/12/2018Understanding how the ocean works is like putting together a million-piece puzzle. There are many questions; finding answers takes time, resources, and opportunity. But even when scientists believe th ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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First jellyfish genome reveals ancient beginnings of complex body plan
Published: 3/12/2018The first in-depth look at the genome of a jellyfish -- the moon jelly Aurelia aurita -- shows that early jellyfish recycled existing genes to gain the ability to morph from polyp to medusa. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com