Deep-sea sediment cores are vital to our understanding of the past and present oceans ... Microfossils are the skeletal remains of marine organisms that either floated in the water column or lived on ...

These plumes of sediment would likely disrupt deep sea creatures’ ability to swim, breathe, find marine snow to eat, and ...

Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...

The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology researches marine bacteria that transform ... These bacteria display widely varying adaptations, e.g. to food gradients in sediments, to low and high ...

Douglas S Fudge and his team created a specialized tank of transparent gelatin in order to visualize how the hagfish behave and locomote within sediments. Hagfish are bottom-dwelling marine ...

Intensive seabed trawling may accelerate carbon emissions, as new research reveals its disruptive impact on ocean sediments.

New research published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science reveals that microplastics often accumulate on the deep sea floor in the same place as diverse and dense marine life communities. This ...

Deep-sea microbes consume alkanes, reducing oceanic and atmospheric pollution, and a new study reveals they utilize a unique ...

"Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any ...