Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may not survive what’s coming
Yet these tiny organisms - called plankton - may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of ...
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Tiny oceanic plankton adapted to warming during the last ice age, but probably won’t survive future climate change – new study
Our conclusion: some plankton are less able to adapt now than they were in the past. Plankton live in the top few metres of ...
Two Sea Creatures Fused Into a Single Animal
In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...
What Is the Dumbest Animal? These 14 Defy Evolution
The slow loris, a nocturnal primate from tropical regions, is often seen as one of nature's "dumbest" animals due to its ...
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Glowing mystery sea slug that feeds like a Venus fly trap captured in deep sea footage for 1st time
Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...
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Remarkable Sea Slug Found Among Monterrey Bay’s Lightless Depths is Nicknamed ‘Mystery Mollusk’
While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...
A Strange Creature Is Reversing Its Age—and It Could Unlock Secrets of Immortality
The warty comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, a fascinatingly weird creature that can regenerate parts of its body, reproduce from ...
Scientists discover mysterious deep sea creature. It hunts with a hood.
Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute identified an intriguing new deep sea species off of California. It's see-through, can glow, and nabs prey with a large hood. At one point ...
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‘Mystery mollusk’ found in the ocean’s midnight zone is unlike anything researchers have seen before
"Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any ...
Climate change is threatening Florida's Key deer
As the United States continues to feel the effects of global warming and rising sea levels, there is renewed concern for the ...
Science Daily16h
Remarkable new swimming sea slug in the deep sea
Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight ...