Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

By reducing the acidity of surrounding waters, seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface form the base of ...

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit ...

A recent groundbreaking study has revealed an extraordinary event in the ocean, where a predatory spectacle of massive ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...