Imagine a world without sunlight, buried under miles of rock, where temperatures soar and pressures crush. Now, imagine that ...

A detailed look at the preferred food and shelter of muskrats provided through a new University of Alberta study could help ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

For centuries, sailors spotted a soft white light across ocean waters, known as "milky seas." A new study examines the ...

Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors for ...

First, biology is just one example of evolution ... yet some new functions can dictate the very rules of how the system evolves subsequently. “The biosphere is creating its own possibilities,” ...

The goal, he said, is to get a research vessel out to the site in time to collect information about the biology and chemistry within a milky ... One of the most common examples is a firefly's ...

In 1939, the same year Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, Ricketts came out of obscurity with Between Pacific Tides, a seminal work of marine biology still taught today. Instead of grouping ...