For more than 80 years, a toxic secret has been leaking from the hulls of sunken shipwrecks on the Pacific floor. Nobody expected anything to call it home. Yet when researchers collected samples and sent them to the lab, the results…
Home - Science - Scientists hauling nets across the Barents Sea have counted 304 species, including slow-growing sponges that may be older than anyone on board, and what worries them most is a small fish that keeps turning up scarce A research expedition…
The discovery was part of a research carried out by the Ministry of Earth Sciences' Deep Ocean Mission project. It has been published in the international taxonomy journal Zootaxa. "Deep-sea marine habitats remain among the most difficult ecosystems to study,…
The best represented taxonomic groups are annelids, mollusks, and crustaceans, including the eminent barnacle collection of the late Emeritus Curator Prof. Bill Newman. SIO-BIC contains more than 700 type lots (including more than 120 holotypes) and considerable material properly preserved for genomic…
By Year2026202520242023202220212020201920182017 2026 Publications Using SIO-BIC Specimens Zhang, D., Zhou, Y., Yen, N., Hiley, A. S., and Rouse, G. W. (2023). Ophryotrocha (Dorvilleidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, with the description of five new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 864, 167–194. doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.864.2101 Buckeridge, J. S., Carlton, J. T., Van…
"The environment is changing so quickly because of human actions, and we need to use all information available to help us assess which animals are at risk and why, and to help develop the most appropriate ways to protect and…
Like a sunflower sea star, with its 24 arms reaching across 3 feet or more, ocean organizations are working together to save this beautiful invertebrate. Not only for its beauty, its vibrant colors ranging from purple to orange and yellow, but because…
Researchers have assembled a 1.25-gigabase, long-read reference genome for the Trindade petrel, a threatened seabird known for hybridisation and split breeding seasons.
A four-season survey at three Egyptian Red Sea sites recorded 2,942 benthic individuals from 60 species and found that season and location both significantly shaped community composition.
The cnidocytes – or stinging cells – that are characteristic of sea anemones, hydrae, corals and jellyfish, and make us careful of our feet while wading in the ocean, are also an excellent model for understanding the emergence of new cell types,…
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