Tagged
34 stories tagged Marine Science
New
A 32.2-centimetre 'colossogiant' isopod collected in Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat unrecognized in a German university collection for ~40 years — until a student and a curator revealed it as a species new to science, complete with a 15-million-year family history.
New
Vent limpets born in deep-sea darkness travel up to the sunlit upper ocean, ride surface currents to new hydrothermal vents, and the chemistry of their millimetre shells finally proves it — a University of Tokyo team's discovery published in Science Advances.
New
A record typhoon wave shrank from 0.9 metres to 0.36 metres crossing a single football field of mangroves — and two new studies (Nature + Climate Risk Management) have turned the mangrove sea-wall from folk wisdom into measurable, plannable science.
A five-year EU research project just proved the ocean works like a medicine cabinet: scientists analysed 1,200+ marine microbe strains, ran 160,000 tests, and advanced five promising new compounds — grown in labs by fermentation, no reef-harvesting required.
A spearhead-shaped particle smaller than a bacterium, lifted from North Atlantic seafloor mud, carries a tornado-shaped magnetic vortex — the earliest direct evidence that ocean animals navigated by Earth's magnetic field 97 million years ago. The prime suspect for its maker: an eel.
The fish behind the world's sea-serpent legends has been hiding a mechanical marvel in its fin: hundreds of independently rotating, ball-and-socket fin rays that work like tiny joysticks. A Cornell team just described it for the first time.
A coral reef off Benin that 1960s surveys presumed dead has been found alive and well more than 50 metres down — eight coral types, eight fish species, and possibly a 40-kilometre reef line still waiting to be explored.
From queen conchs wearing sensor backpacks in Grand Cayman to an 18,000-year-old conch horn that still plays real notes, scientists are discovering that shells are among the ocean's most faithful record-keepers.
A NOAA expedition is live-streaming free daily ROV dives from 2,000 to 6,000 metres deep around American Samoa until September 17, 2026 — and every byte of data will become public.
Choose what we may store on your device. You can change this at any time from the footer.
Necessary
Sign-in, cart, checkout and security. These are required for the site to work and cannot be switched off.
Analytics
Anonymous statistics on which pages and pieces are viewed, so we can improve the shop and the exhibition pages.
Functional
Embedded Google Maps on the Visit and Home pages. Google receives your IP address and may set its own cookies.
