Radiolarians and foraminifera, though sharing a common trait of being unicellular marine organisms, exhibit distinct differences in their skeletal composition, morphology, and ecological niches. These ...

New Zealand marine molluscs are incredibly diverse, with nearly 3,600 species described or known undescribed (Gordon, 2009). What is even more amazing, considering the entire New Zealand mollusc fauna ...

Most life on Earth depends on sunlight, yet some organisms flourish in the dark depths of the ocean where sunlight never reaches. A study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

In 1901, a broken tombstone from the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was rediscovered in Virginia’s Memorial Church. Today, nearly a century later, researchers have ...

In Jamestown, Virginia – the first permanent English settlement in America – there's a distinctive black tombstone thought to mark the resting place of a knight. Now, researchers think they've figured ...

Foraminifera is a diversified taxon, with more than 60.000 described species, and with high ecological and bioindicator importance of both current and past conditions (Horne et al. 2002, Gupta et al.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Researchers studied a Jamestown tombstone that had long been believed to belong to an ...

Abyssal plains, flat regions of soft sediment at depths of ~3000 m and greater, have been recognised since the earliest scientific explorations of the deep ocean (Monin, 1983). Although few research ...

My research focuses on the function of living and extinct animals. In my lab we use biomechanical analysis, including the engineering technique finite element analysis (FEA), to deduce how skeletons ...

Mining in the shallow waters of the continental shelf is seen as more sustainable than deep-sea mining, but goes against global goals on sustainability and conservation, a new study says. There are ...

Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University Off Campus, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Port Blair, India. Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands are located about 1500 km from ...

Aplacophorans are well known as exclusively marine benthic molluscs with a vermiform body covered by aragonitic sclerites (also called spicules), whose species are widely distributed from the ...