Fish species in the ocean:
Census Maps
The Lunar sea
Marine Life Census
UN (Analysis Report)
The ocean's senstive skin
Baby fish 'steer by the sun'
Untold fish catches revealed
Fueling a deep-sea ecosystem
Fish in schools can take it easy
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
New tool to visualize marine life
The covert world of fish bioflouresence
Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds
Exploring ecological marine units (EMUs)
Warm blood makes opah an agile predator
Scientists peek into hidden sea worm's light
Grand challenges in marine ecosytem ecology
Living cables explain enigmatic electric currents
One scientist's quest to scan every species of fish
In the ocean, clever camouflage beats super sight
Complete skin regeneration system of fish unraveled
Fish populations revealed through seawater analysis
Observing life near the ocean's surface with satellites
The overlooked commotion of particle motion in the ocean
A tiny swimmer generates rapid, far-reaching signals in water
Tropical marine ecosystems most at threat from human impact
Global trends show seabird populations dropped 70% since 1950s
New study examines how ocean energy impacts life in the deep sea
From Darwin to the census of marine life: marine biology as big science
Solar powered sea slugs shed light on search for perpetual green energy
New study brings us one step closer to understanding how tidal clocks tick
Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion
'Maths' genes used by fish to count may help us treat human neurodevelopmental diseases
Fish migration:
Epic ocean voyages of coral larvae revealed
Rapid, long-distance dispersal by pumice rafting
Migrating animals add new depth to how the ocean "breathes"
Ocean heat content reveals secrets of fish migration behaviors
Study confirms link between salmon migration and magnetic field
NASA, French space laser measures massive migration of ocean animals
Tracking sargassum's ocean path could help predict ocean inundation events
Fish and ocean oxygen:
How fish won the oxygen war
Warmer, lower-oxygen oceans will shift marine habitats
New study sets oxygen-breathing limit for ocean's hardiest organisms
Scientists find evidence of microscopic life scavenging for oxygen deep in oceanic crust
Ocean Micro-organisms:
Ocean bacteria get 'pumped up'
Big questions about tiny bacteria
Uncovering the secret world of the plastisphere
Sea star wasting disease likely caused by virus
Iron-oxidising bacteria found on Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Limits of microbial life in undersea volcanoes defined
Vast differences in polar ocean microbial communities
Scientist discover nearly 200,000 kinds of ocean viruses
Professor discovers how microbes survive at bare minimum
Oceanic microbes behave in synchrony across ocean basins
Closer look at microorganisms provides insight on carbon cycling
Newly discovered bacterial partnership changes ocean chemistry
Proteomics method measures carbon uptake of marine microbes
Methane seeps of the deep sea: a bacteria feast for lithodid crabs
Genetic survey sheds light on ocean's lean, mean microbial machines
Deep biosphere harbors active, growing communities of microorganisms
Newly discovered marine viruses offer glimpse into untapped biodiversity
Octillions of microbes in the seas: ocean microbes show incredible genetic diversity
Bacteria in the world's oceans produce millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons each year
Plankton:
First atlas of oceanic plankton
Giant plankton gains long-due attention
Variations in phytoplankton community structure
Ocean phytoplankton declines in Northern Hemisphere
Plankton network linked to ocean's biological carbon pump revealed
Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed
A glimpse into the future composition of marine phytoplankton communities
Rising water temperatures and acidification affect important plankton organism
Phytoplankton like it hot: warming boosts biodiversity and photosynthesis in phytoplankton
Laser-guided herds of sea monkeys show how zooplankton migrations may affect global ocean currents
Algae and slime:
Marine algae can sense the rainbow
Algae to cope well in climate change
Ocean optics illuminates aquatic algae
Red tides not random, can be predicted
The challenges of forecating algae blooms
Microorganisms duke it out within algal blooms
Ocean slime spreading quickly across the Earth
Marine bacteria boost growth of tiny ocean algae
Why cryptophyte algae are really good at harvesting light
Genetic maps of ocean algae show bacteria-like flexibility
Turbulence causes swimming algae to congregate in dense patches
Seagrass and kelp:
Seagrasses can store as much carbon as forests
NASA discovers unprecedented bloom of ocean plant life
Jellyfish:
Jellyfish 101
Jellyfish gone wild!
Illuminating gelatinous life in the deep sea
Extremely rare phantom jellyfish caught on camera
Massive outbreak of jellyfish could spell trouble for fisheries
Sea anenomes:
Hidden among sea anenomes: the first comprehensive phylogenic reconstruction of the Order Actiniaria reveals a novel group of hexacorals
Shellfish:
Grazing snails rule the waves
How seashells get their strength
Barnacles explain life at the extremes
Tiny marine shells reveal past patterns in ocean dynamics
Seashells for sale: a new souurce of sustaiable biomaterials
Giants of the ocean:
Sizing up giants uder the sea
Whales:
In search of whales
Cetacean stranding
Southern Right whales
Western Gray whale report
Keeping whales safe in sound
Whales are ecosystem engineers
The hidden world of whale culture
Gulls feasting on whales? In Argentina, yes
Whales have conscious control of their heart rate
Salmon fishing clashes with endangered gray whales
Fossils reveal origins of filter feeding in baleen whales
Listening for whales and fish in the northwest Atlantic Ocean
Dolphins:
Dolphins can identify their friends by taste, study shows for the first time
Dolphins can remember each other after 20 years of separation
The endling: watching a species vanish in real time
Sharks:
The surprising ways sharks keep the ocean healthy
New genetic research shark, human proteins stunningly similar
Great white sharks may change their color to sneak up on prey
This deep-sea shark is one of the world's largest glowing animals
These sharks have evolved to walk on land - and they did it quickly
Mystery event caused shark populations to crash 19 million years ago
Megalodon is definitely extinct - and great white sharks may be to blame
Octopus:
True facts about the octopus
Octopus feeding and mating
'mind-boggling' scrambled genome found in octopus and squid. It could explain their smarts
Squid:
Make like a squid and transform
Aciidifying oceans could spell trouble for squid
Marine food webs:
Life-limiting nutrients
Short circuit in the food web
Feast or famine on the abyssal plain
Ocean acidification may drive diatom decline
Algal mats may be a key to the Arctic food web
Stirred not mixed: how seawater turbulence affects marine food webs
Arctic study shows key marine food web species at risk from increasing CO2
New 13-year study tracks impact of changing climate on key marine food source
Effects of ocean pollution on marine life:
Ocean fish acquire more mercury at depth
Some fish quickly adapt to lethal levels of pollution
A mile deep, ocean fish facing health impacts from human pollution
Protection of Marine Nursaries & Biodiversity:
Ocean oases: how islands support more sea-life
Global study reveals new hotspots of fish biodiversity
Marine reserves enhance resilience to climate change
Tiny grazers play key role in marine ecosystem health
Streamlining a common survival strategy in marine microbes
Integrated marine research for sustainable ocean development
Conserving marine diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries
Multiple ocean stresses threaten 'globally significant' marine extinction
Motion, commotion, and biophysical connections at deep ocean seamounts
Navy gains a competitive edge with research into biological ocean swarms
Marine biodiversity and biogeography - regional comparisons of global Issues
Submarine canyons: hotspots of deep-sea benthic abundance and biodiversity
Biogeography of deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems - the ChEss collection
Two ocean studies look at microscopic diversity and activity across entire planet
Tiny sea creaturs are heading for extinction, and could take local fisheries with them
Protecting marine biodiversity : international treaties, national systems of marine protected areas
Larval transport and dispersion in the coastal ocean and consequences for population connectivity
Assessing impact of noise from offshore wind farm construction may help protect marine mammals
Conserving marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction: interaction with the law of the sea
Global synopsis of large marine ecosystems and the open ocean science and transboundary management
Ocean chemistry:
Deep ocean carbon sinks
The ocean's living carbon pumps
Proteomics reveals ocean's inner workings
The silicon cycle impacted by past ice sheets
Miigrating animals' pee affects ocean chemistry
Researchers study vast carbon residue of ocean life
Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans
Flowing electrons help ocean microbes gulp methane
Study offers solution to Ice Age ocean chemistry puzzle
Small fish can play a big role in the coastal carbon cycle
Ice sheets of the last ice age seeded the ocean with silica
Could the humble sea urchin hold the key to carbon capture?
Manganese nodules as breeding ground for deep-sea octopuses
Climate change and marine life:
Acid trap
Sea life 'facing major shock'
Profiting from climate change
Kelp forests under threat from acid seas
Weeds take over kelp in high CO2 oceans
Sealife faces risk of large-scale extinctions
Climate 'causing huge changes in ocean life
How small marine particles affect our climate
Reading ancient climate from plankton shells
Ocean data shows 'climate dance' of plankton
Greenhouse gas likely altering ocean food chain
Global cooling as a significant as global warming
Tiny sea creatures hold secrets to Earth's climate
Ocean acidification weighs heavily upon marine algae
Tiny ocean organism has big role in climate regulation
Global investigation reveals true scale of ocean warming
Tiny phytoplankton have big influence on climate change
Small organisms could dramatically impact world's climate
Genetic switch lets marine diatoms do less work at higher CO2
Jurassic records warn of risk to marine life from global warming
Atom-by-atom growth chart for shells helps decode past climate
A war without end - with Earth's carbon cycle held in the balance
Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton
Rapid plankton growth in ocean seen as sign of carbon dioxide loading
Study shows iron from melting ice sheets may help buffer global warming
Suffering in the heat: the rise in marine heatwaves is harming ocean species
New research offers insight into marine life's ability to adapt to climate change
Carbon-sequestering ocean plants may cope with climate changes over the long run
Clear link found between warming climate and rise in ocean-borne bacteria illnesses
Marine nitrogen fixers mediate a low latitude pathway for atmospheric CO2 drawdown
Evolutionary issues:
The far-future ocean: warm yet oxygen-rich
Study reveals patterns in globally important algae
Life in earth's priordial sea was starved for sulphate
Mass extinction led to many new species of bony fish
New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises
Scientists reveal why life got big in the Earth's early oceans
How Jurassic plankton stole control of the ocean's chemistry
Dinosaur-era crab fossil reveals new branch in the tree of life
The end-Cretaceous extinction unleashed modern shark diversity
Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the 'Great Dying'
A new theory emerges for where some fish became four-limbed creatures
Chalking up a marine blooming algae: genome fills a gap in the tree of life
Fossils help identify marine life that may be at high risk of extinction today
Ocean biology experienced dramatic evolutionary shift 170 million years ago
Blind cavefish offer evidence for alternative mechanism of evoluionary change
Coralline red algae have existed for 300 miilion years longer than previously presumed
Regional:
Arctic Ocean:
Warm water is mixing up life in the Arctic
Billions of juvenile fish under the Arctic sea ice
Specialized life forms abound at Artic methane seeps
Marine carbon sinking rates confirm importance of polar oceans
Interactive effect of temperature and CO2 increase in Arctic phytoplankton
Atlantic Ocean:
Northeast Shelf record high SST
Atlantic invertebrates are going the wrong way
Coccolithophoro distributions of the North and South Atlantic Ocean
Study outlines threat of ocean acidification to coastal communities in the US
Shallow-water corals in Florida are not related to their deep-water counterpart
Mediterranean Sea:
Great white sharks in Mediterranean made 'wrong turn'
Conservation status of the marine fishes of the Mediterranean Sea
Baltic Sea:
Salt stratification determines the fate of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea
Comparing past variations, future projections of Baltic Sea ecosystem multi-model ensemble simulations
Pacific Ocean:
Sydney: fish only a mother could love
Researchers wire the kelp forests off California coasts
The ecological costs of removing California's offshore oil rigs
Sea change: oysters dying as US Pacific NW coast is hit hard
US West Coast study emphasizes challenges faced by marine organisms exposed to global change
Indian Ocean:
Project GLoBAL: India - West Indian Ocean
Twenty new freshwater fish species uncovered in the Kimberley
Urgent need to study the impacts of biomass burning and haze on marine ecosystems in SE Asia
Southern Ocean:
Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean
Australia's vast kelp forests devastated by marine heatwave
Australia: Take a bite at the Bight - and its deep ocean ecosystem
Sustainable management of krill resources in the Southern Ocean
Major shift in marine life in the Southern Ocean occurred 33 million years later
New deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the Southern Ocean and implications for biogeography
Antarctica:
Underwater drones map ice algae in Antarctica
Life found in the sediments of an Antarctic subglacial lake for the first time