Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own. These tiny marine snails, or thecosomes, migrate up to surface waters at night to feed and sink to ...

New research suggests oysters may rely on hidden microbes to help build their shells and maintain chemistry as oceans grow more acidic.

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Climate change in the past can tell us much about what is happening today. New research shows how plankton shells dredged ...

Several times over the past months we’ve noted the anticipated effects of ocean acidification. As the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content increases, some of it mixes with ocean water, forming carbonic ...

Until recently, the main threat to the lives of sea butterflies, tiny snails with winglike lobes that float in ocean currents, had been the fish and birds that rely on them as an important source of ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dive into a sea of fun at the New York Aquarium for Ocean Shell-a-bration Weekend, a three-day event celebrating the vital role oceans play in our lives and promoting ...