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

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

"Respiratory bacteria attach to the surfaces of the lungs ... said oysters were classified as filter feeders that removed plankton and other organic particles from marine systems.

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...

The jelly-like Aurelia aurita contains mucus with bacteria that consume hydrocarbons ... Presumably, along with plankton, jellyfish also consumed nanofractions of oil products," noted Ivan Rusev. As ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.