“There’s been a lot of work over the years on vision in a variety of fish from shallow water to the deep ... starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had ...

The critically endangered whitefin swellshark, a little-known deep-sea species, faces a grim future as climate change ...

The fish that live and lurk in deep ... Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean The "hairs" on the frogfish are actually spines that allow it to camouflage itself behind seaweed and coral ...

A team of environmental scientists at Duke University, working with colleagues from the University of New South Wales, the ...

"Crown-of-thorns starfish, they're actually natural to the Barrier Reef and all through the Indo-Pacific, but what they do (is), they eat coral ... the most intense sea temperature rises brought ...

The Indian Ocean is the third ... a third of Indian Ocean coral has disappeared. Threats include climate change, coastal development and the crown-of-thorns starfish. In one instance numbers ...

Blue starfish on a coral reef, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image by Mark J. Costello. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Factors cited in the report include an outbreak of the coral-devouring starfish, rising sea temperatures, runoff of red soil from development projects on land, and discharge of insufficiently ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

nearly 1,000 deep-sea methane seeps were recently discovered near the Pacific Northwest United States). Therefore, identifying whether other critical habitats exist in areas vulnerable to oil ...