When These Sea Anemones Eat, It Goes Straight to Their Arms
People have a lot of strategies for dealing with the effects of large meals — constitutionals, antacids, workouts, naps. Starlet sea anemones have found a...
Tag : Fish and Other Marine Life
When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
In 1970, Jim Estes made his first trek up to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. He was greeted by an ocean filled with furry faces. Everywhere the...
You Can’t Escape Lice, Even 6,500 Feet Below the Ocean
Darling, it’s better under the sea, unless you’re an insect. You might find some bugs skimming the surface of a pond or even creating their...
Why Some Tropical Fish Are Gettin’ Squiggly With It
When American painter Bob Ross said, “There are no mistakes, only happy accidents,” he was ostensibly referring to paint on a canvas. But Mr. Ross’s...
Dolphins Have Hidden Fingers. So Do Seals. These Sea Creatures Did Not.
Put a dolphin’s front flipper in an X-ray machine, and you’ll see a surprise: an arc of humanlike finger bones. The same goes for a...
‘The Fish Rots From the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests
OZERPAKH, Russia — A row of stakes hundreds of feet long pokes out of the endless estuary of the Amur River on Russia’s Pacific coast,...
The Male Anglerfish’s Evolutionary Solution to Female Rejection
In a biopic about the mating rituals of anglerfish, it’s unclear what would earn the film its R-rating: the sex or the violence. Born into...
It’s Always the Summer of the Shark
The shark rested on its back, its jaws parted in ecstasy, punch-drunk after feasting on a whale carcass off the coast of Nantucket, in Massachusetts....
The Dangers of Mining the Deep Ocean
There is treasure in the sea, and much of it lies in plain view on the deep ocean floor. Fields of metallic nodules and towering...
These Microbes May Have Survived 100 Million Years Beneath the Seafloor
The South Pacific Gyre is an aquatic nowhere. It’s the spot in the sea that’s farther from land than any other, so devoid of nutrients,...