Tag: sea

Unlocking the secrets of collagen: How sea creature superpowers are inspiring smart biomaterials for human health

PALEONTOLOGY
Major findings on the inner workings of a brittle star's ability to reversibly control the pliability of its tissues will help researchers solve the...

How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago

EARTH
The Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis—a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and...

Deep sea rocks suggest oxygen can be made without photosynthesis, deepening the mystery of life

EARTH
Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it, is largely made by plants. Whether underwater or on land, they do this...

Paleontologists describe new examples of giant sea scorpions from the Silurian and Devonian in New South Wales

PALEONTOLOGY
A team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum Research Institute, and the WB Clarke Geoscience Center, in Australia,...

Ancient sea cow that was attacked by both a primeval crocodile and shark sheds new light on prehistoric food chains

PALEONTOLOGY
A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores—a crocodilian and a shark—is revealing...

Geobiologist’s team discovers ‘missing’ sea sponges

EARTH
At first glance, the simple sea sponge is no creature of mystery. No brain. No gut. No problem dating it back 700 million years....

Study indicates Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water

PALEONTOLOGY
A study involving the University of Cambridge has used virtual recreations of the earliest animal ecosystems, known as marine animal forests, to demonstrate the...

Fossils of giant sea lizard with dagger-like teeth show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. Their...

VIDEO/ WATCH – What happens at the bottom of the sea when an earthquake occurs?

EARTHQUAKES
There are so many images of earthquakes that I believe we all have a video of buildings shaking and people running in panic. However,...

Are deep blue seas fading? Oceans turn to new hue across parts of Earth, study finds

OCEANOGRAPHY
A large swath of Earth's oceans changed color over the past 20 years—and human activity is suspected to have caused it, a new study...

Greenland melted some 416,000 years ago, shows high risk of causing sea level rise today

EARTH
During the Cold War, a secret U.S. Army mission, at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland, drilled down through 4,560 feet of ice on the...

Why Antarctic ice shelves are losing their mass and how it leads to global sea level rise

OCEANOGRAPHY
The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) contribute largely to global mean sea level (GMSL) changes, though the seas surrounding the...
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