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Invasive species cost the North American economy $26 billion a year. By outcompeting local plants or animals, invaders reduce ...
Sea turtles can get stranded on beaches for many reasons. If you find one, follow these five steps to help give it its best chance at survival.
With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the sunflower star is a purple urchin-eating machine. But Bank said the sunflower ...
Bathydevius caudactylus is the first known sea slug to live in the deep water column. It lives in the ocean’s midnight zone–a wide area of open water about 3,300 to 13,100 feet below the surface.
Sunflower sea stars clinging to life in B.C.’s cold-water fjords are officially on the edge of extinction, a scientific ...
In 2023, a similar domoic acid event left more than 1,000 sea lions dead, SF Gate reported. Warner had called that event the "worst domoic acid bloom in recorded history in Southern California ...
A meal for the next generation of sea spiders. The newly discovered Sericosura spiders are translucent and only span about 0.4 inch (1 centimeter) in length, so they likely can’t travel very far ...
While it’s the library’s first time doing a sea life touch tank, it will bring other kinds of critters this summer to the Oak ...
If you’re in the water and a sea lion shows up – even if it’s not showing aggressive behavior – the best thing to do is get out of the water, Deming said.
Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any sea slug Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have seen ...
Robison knows better than most—he’s the one who recorded the only other footage of a living black seadevil, a specimen spotted at a depth of 1,900 feet by the remotely operated vehicle Doc ...