Scientists stumbled upon a mysterious crustacean quite by accident. The discovery was made nearly 26,247 feet underwater, in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, near the shoreline connecting Peru and ...

The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?” Their locations below large water sources — including the western ...

The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several ... in plastic debris on two tropical islands in the South Pacific. When these trapped crabs die, they release a pheromone ...

sagamius lives in the Pacific Ocean at depths of 2,000 to 3,300 feet ... have evolved to feed on whatever fits in its mouth—including other fish, squid, and crustaceans. Using its esca as a lure, an ...

When Stanford researchers began tracking a group of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, they were trying to answer a simple question about their migration pattern. Now, they've wound up generating far bigger ...

arabesque raises questions about how many more undiscovered parasitic species exist in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere," Earth.com explained. The discovery of S. arabesque could help scientists ...

An evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., conducted research in Okinawa, Japan to study the process of carcinization in coconut crabs found in the remote tropical islands ...

The Pacific Ocean is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate ... both guardian of the ocean in the mythology of certain Maori tribes and goddess of pearl oysters and crustaceans in Polynesian ...