Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

When we think about animals, we tend to think of furry four-legged mammals. But 95% of all animal species are invertebrates – ...

So the clue was, ‘This temperate coral undergoes quiescence in the winter. Another word for this is … ?’” Anya Brown has ...

Our oceans are becoming dangerously acidic impacting the fish and shellfish we eat and the beaches we swim on, says a leading researcher ...

Have you ever seen a hermit crab or owned one as a pet? These tiny decapod crustaceans are known for their interesting habit ...

Sea star larvae have been stored at −200°C and thawed for the first time, a step towards restoring populations that have been ...

Over the course of its one- to two-year lifespan, a single crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) can consume up to 200 kg of coral tissue across an area of roughly 10 square meters. On its own ...

If you're hoping that reef-restoring coral larvae will settle down in damaged reefs, you can't just sit around and wait for it to happen. You have to get out there and entice the larvae ...

Galls shelter the larvae of the insects that made them grow, and they protect newborns from predators, parasitoids and adverse weather conditions. It turns out that this perfect nursery can also ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully cryopreserved sea star larvae and reactivated them – an important milestone that could help re-establish a critically endangered keystone species.

In their paper published in the journal Ecology, the group describes how they discovered weevil larvae alive in some of the galls on Solanum lycocarpum plants after a fire on a farm in Minas ...

Seventh as a starfish with a wide body and found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, with a width of around 16 inches. The crown-of-thorns starfish is big and spiny, with as many as 21 arms ...