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

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

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

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 ...

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

The heat is on as the summer surf season starts Friday, June 20. The ocean temperature has reached the mid-60s. Two ...

You're by the water's edge, observing a turquoise lagoon, then a little further away, you see an almost black sea at the foot ...

Scientists have unveiled three previously unknown species of deep-sea sea spiders that use an unusual source of nutrition: methane. This research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine ...