A study suggests that several species of brown algae may have independently evolved to express both sexes simultaneously, and it’s likely that female algae evolved male traits—not the other way around ...

In the oceans, a new type of large brown algae, called kelp, latched onto rocks and corals in cool shallow waters, establishing a new habitat favored by sea otters and dugongs, a marine mammal ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis ...

The diatom collections are curated separately. The algae collections number around 400,000 specimens. The main algal groups represented here are: red, green and brown seaweeds freshwater algae ...

A USF study found that vertical currents are likely behind the algae blooms that dump sargassum onto Florida beaches each ...