. Scientific Frontline: Marine Biology
Showing posts with label Marine Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marine Biology. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Smaller fish and changing food webs – even where species numbers stay the same

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"Beyond the Numbers" The hidden transition from ecosystems ruled by apex predators to those crowded by smaller, mid-level feeders....

Marine Plastic Pollution Alters Octopus Predator-Prey Encounters

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Madelyn A. Hair returns an octopus to its capture site after participating in the study. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Florida Atlantic Universi...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Twilight fish study reveals unique hybrid eye cells

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Two pearlside species that have hybrid photoreceptors in their eyes as larvae and adults, Maurolicus muelleri  and Maurolicus mucronatus. Ph...

Tiny marine animal reveals bacterial origin of animal defence mechanisms

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Glass plates to catch the model organism Trichoplax in its natural habitat, warm coastal waters. Scientists at Kiel University use the tiny ...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Deep-sea Microbes Get Unexpected Energy Boost

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New discovery overturns long held assumptions that the deep ocean is a “nutrient desert”, reshapes our understanding of the ocean’s carbon c...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Shrinking Shellfish? Risks of Acidic Water in the Indian River Lagoon

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FAU researchers measured aragonite saturation – a key indicator of water’s ability to support calcifying organisms like clams and oysters – ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Tests uncover unexpected humpback sensitivity to high-frequency noise

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Photo Credit:  Mike Doherty Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Humpback whales demonstrate unexpected se...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Silky Shark Study Reveals Deadly Gaps in Marine Protected Areas

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The Silky Shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) Photo Credit: Alex Chernikh ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summar...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Arctic seas are getting louder as ice melts, posing risks

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Photo Credit:  Наталья Коллегова Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Current international regulatory fra...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Study finds fisheries management—not predator recovery—drives catch levels in the North Sea

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Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) basking on a rocky shore. Recent data shows these charismatic marine mammals have surged in the past few deca...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Positive Interactions Dominate Among Marine Microbes, Six-Year Study Reveals

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Lead study author Ewa Merz conducting maintenance on a pump below the Scripps Pier, which brings seawater to the surface for sampling. Photo...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Seawater microbes offer new, non-invasive way to detect coral disease

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This brain coral shows the effects of stony coral tissue loss disease. The brown areas are healthy, the white areas are newly dead from the ...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Bristol scientists discover early sponges were soft

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Xestospongia muta, the barrel sponge, may live for 100 years and grow to over 6 feet tall. While populations have declined at sites througho...

A molecular switch that controls transitions between single-celled and multicellular forms

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The marine yeast Hortaea werneckii switches between unicellular and multicellular forms depending on food availability. These microscope ima...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Manta rays create mobile ecosystems

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Juvenile Atlantic manta ray swimming over sandflat with remora symbionts in South Florida.  Photo Credit: Bryant Turffs A new study from the...

Identical micro-animals live in two isolated deep-sea environments. How is that possible?

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The researchers traveled on the research vessel Polarstern to South Sandwich Trench where they collected sediment samples. Photo Credit: ©An...
Friday, December 5, 2025

New deep-sea species discovered during mining test

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A small marine bristle worm. The group from the University of Gothenburg has been working with this species. It is one of the few species th...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

New marine sponges provide clues about animal evolution

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Paco Cárdenas and Julio A. Díaz have described new sponges found off the coast of Spain. The researchers discovered that the sponges produce...
Monday, December 1, 2025

The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers

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Alyson Santoro Associate Professor Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Alyson Santoro's research focuses on microbes involved in nutr...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Marine Biology: In-Depth Description

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Photo Credit:  Neeraj Pramanik Marine Biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean and other brackish bodies of water. This dis...