The Fisheries Agency plans to accelerate the mass production of a plankton that serves as a highly nutritious form of feed as part of efforts to boost exports of farmed fish, according to sources.

Zooplankton are a critical component of marine ecosystems. They link phytoplankton production to higher levels of the marine food chain (which the scientists call trophic levels), including ...

The iconic one-eyed monster coming to movie screens in July in The Odyssey might have more in common with tiny water critters ...

Islands are already famous for strange wildlife, but their cave systems take isolation to another level. Cut off from sunlight, predators, and sometimes even the open ocean, these underground ...

After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle Plewe, Carson Gadler and doctoral student Zoe Zilz returned to campus in ...

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A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...

The E. affinis complex currently serves as a valuable model system for investigating evolutionary adaptation during habitat transitions, both during biological invasions and in response to climate ...

“These microbes travel with their copepod hosts”, explains lead author Dr. Ximena Velasquez. “Because copepods dispersal is more limited by ocean currents than free-living microbes, their associated ...

Bermuda’s Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world; now, one more joins their ranks as researchers of the University of Cambridge, ...

Raising squid in aquaculture has been a challenge that researchers have tried to address for many decades without meaningful success. Squid are highly sensitive to changes in water flow, are ...

“We discovered a pronounced ‘men are from Mars, women are from Venus’ pattern,” says marine and environmental biologist Suzanne Edmands. She refers not to human psychology, but rather to mitochondria, ...