Long before plants and algae, cyanobacteria were already performing photosynthesis—filling Earth's skies with oxygen and ...

Antarctic krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures, are an important species in the Southern Ocean ecosystem and global carbon cycle ...

These types of changes are "going to affect us, because we rely on the ocean for our air, our food, our climate regulation.” ...

Arctic winter is not quiet. New research shows that dissolved carbon becomes easier for microbes to use, reshaping the ...

In the journal Science, researchers from the Texas Field Station Network and Colorado State University study water-deprived ...

Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...

A global research effort led by Colorado State University, including The University of New Mexico, shows that extreme, ...

All along the western Antarctic Peninsula, whales, penguins and seals in their millions depend on krill (Euphausia superba) ...

The translucent Enypniastes eximia, nicknamed the 'headless chicken monster,' navigates the deep sea with fin-like appendages ...

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious ...