Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

Learn how the air-filled pneumatophore helps the Portuguese Man o’ War float and why it often ends up stranded on beaches.

A new study reveals that distal gene regulation via DNA looping evolved 150 million years earlier than previously believed. Using 3D genome mapping, researchers found this complex mechanism first ...

The deep seafloor remains a mystery—only 0.001% has been seen. We live on an ocean world. Yet we know surprisingly little ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

Scientists have discovered a rare deep-sea predator beneath the ice of Antarctica. Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant ...

A total of twelve specimens were collected, classified in two families, three genera, and four species. Fully expanded distal end up to 42.3 mm in diameter, oral disc about 14 mm in diameter, ...

To find out when and how distal regulation developed, the group studied the 3D genomes of 11 species that represent early branches of the animal tree, including the sea walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi), ...

Over 86 percent of the species in the data set face two or more of the five drivers at once, creating dangerous feedbacks that can accelerate decline. Corals and other cnidarians are hit by an average ...

Species like Noctiluca scintillans react to mechanical stimulation ... Sea pens present some of the most elegant displays of bioluminescence in the ocean. These colonial cnidarians, related to corals ...

These parasites pose a serious threat to species such as salmon and trout ... metagenomic sequencing negates inferred loss of cytosine methylation in Myxosporea (Cnidaria: Myxozoa)” by Antonio ...

Cnidarian; hydrozoan; siphonophore ... The Portuguese man-of-war feed on squids and fishes (both adults and larvae), and heavily infestation of this species may decrease fisheries (PURCELL, 1984). We ...