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marine life

Posidonia australis

Life

Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

A seagrass off the west coast of Australia has grown to be the biggest clonal organism in the world by repeatedly cloning itself to make more and more genetically identical shoots

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artificial membrane

Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

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Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, Alonissos Island, GreeceMonk seal, Monachus monachus, which enters and swims in the sea. Endangered species. Alonissos Island, Sporades Islands, Greece (Photo by Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Life

Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

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A dolphin with a fungal infection on its dorsal fin

Life

Rubbing against coral seems to be a popular skin treatment in dolphins

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A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

Video

Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

Video

Colony of Streptomyces coelicolor

Life

A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles

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Vaquita or Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena sinus), caught as by-catch, Baja California, Mexico, critically endangered species

Life

Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

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Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

Life

Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

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200 million year old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea only occasionally into shallower water.

Life

Ichthyosaur tooth from the Swiss Alps is largest ever discovered

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How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

Environment

How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

From deep-sea mining to industrial-scale fishing, human activities in the oceans are expanding massively in a realm where few rules apply. Only now are we grappling with how to regulate the rush to plunder the seas

Features

Space

Group that wants to contact aliens will transmit to TRAPPIST-1 system

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Life

Anchovies stirring up the sea may be influencing ocean mixing

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Space

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs want to play chess with aliens as soon as we can find them

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Environment

Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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