Sea turtles have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years. During that timeframe, they experience changes in ocean chemistry, ocean temperatures, and even prey abundance. Just how much sea turtles are ...
Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beach on the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion shells ...
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...
Some 20,000 years ago, when the last ice age was at its peak, a marine animal with an ultrashort lifespan of just one month, really lived in the moment. In its brief and wondrous life, the ...
Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon. Anyone who has ever dived into the ocean has seen the tiny white flecks drifting through ...
A small island off the coast of Fiji’s Vanua Levu appears to be almost entirely composed of discarded shellfish remains, ...
Sitting atop the crow’s nest of a small barge, the boat captain shielded his eyes from the July sun and pitched his gaze to the commotion below. The hum of heavy equipment and the clatter of oyster ...