An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...

Those difficulties were motivation for Vásquez and fellow marine researcher Justin Cordova to start the nonprofit Rogue Shark Lab. Vásquez said the group has the twin goals of raising money to support ...

Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink sea creature with “dark yellow eggs.” Out of the shadows, something encircled it and pulled it to the surface. Sifting through their catch, ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making great strides in generating and translating human language. Large language models (LLMs) have quickly moved beyond simply dealing with human speech to ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently discovered something pretty remarkable: a new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Now, you might be thinking to ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

Federal authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man who was filmed decapitating a sea lion on a beach in Monterey County earlier this summer ...

Scientists from MIT and elsewhere have identified chemical fossils that may have been left by ancient sponges in rocks more than 541 million years old. These chemical fossils are special types of ...

Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources during one of history's harshest climate periods.

Learn about how chemical fossils helped researchers identify one of Earth’s earliest animals: a sea sponge from the Ediacaran Period.

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.