Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.

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Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind ...

The sea floor is home to all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures. But one in particular has become an online sensation, ...

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that ...

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Red kites were once a common bird of prey in Ireland but became extinct as a breeding bird by the 19th century due to ...

Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with ...

The disease is gruesome. It starts with lesions, then the sea star’s limbs begin to twist and some of them fall off ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...