Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names by Nicholas Green, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ... Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ...

During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish using six leg-like appendages to "walk" around the bottom of their tank.

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The towers could allow some of their members to reach new places or to hitchhike on other organisms such as fruit flies. The bigger question is how the worms communicate within the towers.

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Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

Most ocean animals produce their own light or host bacteria that do—a useful skill for communication, finding prey, camouflage, and more.

Plants and other photosynthetic organisms use CO2, water, and light energy to produce glucose and O2. Glucose is used to synthesize organic molecules, while O2 is released into the atmosphere.

“It’s a coordinated structure, a superorganism in motion.” The paper suggested these observations could serve as a “missing link” into behavior of similar organisms.

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...