"In an environment where food is scarce, where there is nowhere to hide, and where the predators are probably faster than you are, most animals must find new ways to protect themselves." When you ...

Paleontology General Marine Micropaleontology Taxonomy of Ostracoda. 1965–1967: Postdoctoral research associate with Curator Richard H. Benson, Smithsonian Institution, studying ostracodes of the ...

Clione limacina, the naked sea butterfly, sounds like an angelic little creature… that eats its relatives! The naked sea butterfly, or common clione, is a type of sea angel, a pelagic, non-shelled – ...

This script is a template for extracting a subset of the trait database for the local species pool and a set of traits. This template was made for species-level (level 2) data. Note that this only ...

Sweltering heat waves have blanketed Southeast Asia and other regions recently. One contributing factor has been record-breaking ocean temperatures. Oceans have thus far absorbed the brunt of global ...

An example of a summer population of Limacina rangii from the Scotia Sea. Larger juveniles living alongside a smaller, larval stage cohort. Credit: Dr. Vicky Peck Researchers investigating the life ...

The world’s oceans absorb approximately a quarter of all carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. During absorption, CO 2 reacts with seawater and oceanic pH levels fall. This is known as ocean ...

A sea butterfly (Limacina helicina) whose shell has been weakened by ocean acidification. (NOAA Photo Library, CC-BY-2.0) Some scientists worry that rapid changes in temperature and acidity may ...

The waters they farmed in had become corrosive to the shells of the sea butterfly, Limacina helicina, a delicate sea snail that is only 5mm across. The snail underpins key marine food webs that ...

The waters they farmed in had become corrosive to the shells of the sea butterfly, Limacina helicina, a delicate sea snail that is only 5mm across. The snail underpins key marine food webs that ...

Angels are making their way to beaches across the Delmarva Peninsula by way of the Clione limacina, more commonly known as the naked sea butterfly or sea angel. A flurry of social media posts have ...