A recent study uncovers three sea spider species that depend on methane-eating microbes for food, offering insight into ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their ...

A study reveals how bacteria present in marine particles maintain the oceanic nitrogen cycle, providing ecological stability ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that could be teaming up with bacteria to thrive off gas bubbling from the seafloor ...

Pus, strep throat, and even tuberculosis—most infectious diseases are characterized by a cluster of pathogenic bacteria that ...

Marine bacteria control how much CO 2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

A new study in Nature Microbiology shows that under carbon starvation, marine bacteria split into two strategies: some stop ...

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...