Marine Biology

Scientists have documented the first case of an adult porbeagle shark being predated upon by a great white shark. In 2020, a porbeagle shark fitted with tracking devices went missing, and the recovered data indicated that the shark was likely eaten by a larger predator. Analysis of temperature data from the tag pointed to a great white shark, thoug...

Since April, the world has seen record high ocean temperatures and that's bad news for the plants and animals that call the ocean home.

The Red Sea's spectacular coral reefs face a new threat, marine biologists warn -- the mass death of sea urchins that may be caused by a mystery disease.

If you give an octopus MDMA, it will get touchy and want to mingle. What sounds like the premise of a children's book set at Burning Man is, in fact, the conclusion of a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. Neuroscientist Gul Dolen, who studies social behavior at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and octopus ex...

A message in a bottle that washed up on a beach in Germany more than 108 years after it was thrown into the sea is believed to be the world's oldest.

Scientists have documented the first case of an adult porbeagle shark being predated upon by a great white shark. In 2020, a porbeagle shark fitted with tracking devices went missing, and the recovered data indicated that the shark was likely eaten by a larger predator. Analysis of temperature data from the tag pointed to a great white shark, thoug...

Since April, the world has seen record high ocean temperatures and that's bad news for the plants and animals that call the ocean home.

The Red Sea's spectacular coral reefs face a new threat, marine biologists warn -- the mass death of sea urchins that may be caused by a mystery disease.

If you give an octopus MDMA, it will get touchy and want to mingle. What sounds like the premise of a children's book set at Burning Man is, in fact, the conclusion of a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. Neuroscientist Gul Dolen, who studies social behavior at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and octopus ex...

A message in a bottle that washed up on a beach in Germany more than 108 years after it was thrown into the sea is believed to be the world's oldest.