If you don't like seeing sea creatures getting saddled with cumbersome, uncomfortable-looking data-tracking devices, then you might like Marine Skin. While it still allows scientists to gather important data, it's also thin, light, flexible, stretchable and streamlined.
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Camouflage allows soldiers to blend into their surroundings, but what if they could adapt to different surroundings in seconds? A team of researchers at Northeastern University has turned to cephalopods in an attempt to uncover their camouflage secrets and see if they can be mimicked.
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Scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory and the University of Cambridge have found that the cuttlefish controls its stealth ability using a giant neural circuit that similar to the one that squids use to control their iridescence.
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A new study from the German Cancer Research Center has revealed that the entire species of Marmorkrebs originate from a single mother crayfish, in a clonal reproduction that may help shed new light on processes in tumor development.
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Marine researchers have discovered that some species of skate were incubating their eggs in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, a behavior never before observed in marine animals.
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Humans have pretty much traipsed over all the dry parts of the planet, but the vast oceans still hide plenty of secrets from us landlubbers. Now, an ongoing study has identified a new species, the Mariana snailfish, which appears to be the deepest-dwelling fish in the world.
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An international team of scientists is halfway through a month-long journey surveying the ocean floor along Australia’s eastern abyss. So far the team has uncovered a startling array of bizarre abyssal animals including a weird faceless fish and blind deep-sea spiders.
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Evolution has a way of helping life adapt to the most extreme of environments. In the case of the Mexican cavefish, help comes in the form of blindness and a skull that skews to the left. The reason for such a strange arrangement? So it can find food in the pitch black darkness of its habitat.
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It's a cutthroat world out there, and the male cuttlefish is not above using sneaky tactics to fool rivals. But what causes a mild-mannered trickster to morph into a fighter? The answer can be found in the footage below, the first of its kind to capture a male cuttlefish brawl in the wild.
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Rising ocean temperatures are wreaking havoc on coral reefs, but a new study has revealed a glimmer of hope. Some species of coral – but not all of them – appear to be adapting to the warming waters, with researchers finding less bleached coral in 2016 than under similar circumstances in 1998.
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