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Putting sharks on the map: a new standard to identify important, global habitats

September 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Tayyibah Aziz, science writer Image: Shutterstock Many existing marine protected areas fail to adequately consider the needs of sharks, rays, and chimaeras, as data about [...]

Biggest fish in the sea are girls

September 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Female whale sharks are the world's largest fish: Frontiers in Marine Science [...]

Microbial ecology yields new insights for future shipwreck conservation

August 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Shipwreck habors a rich spatially structured microbial community: Frontiers in Microbiology [...]

Be an ocean champion for World Oceans Day

June 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

How can young people get involved in celebrating, researching and protecting our oceans on World Oceans Day? [...]

eDNA expands species surveys to capture a more complete picture

January 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Casting a genetic net identifies more marine vertebrates than traditional surveys but has limits: Frontiers in Marine Science [...]

The freediving champions of the dolphin world

August 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

Physiological differences within the same species of dolphin explain huge variations in usual diving depths: Frontiers in Physiology [...]

10,000th microbiology article published today!

February 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

Frontiers in Microbiology David Hutchins article

The article, on vitamin B12 production by a marine microbe, comes from scientists at the University of California and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. [...]