Rebecca Howard is a marine biologist who spent six years in graduate school — largely funded by federal scholarship dollars — to earn a doctorate at Oregon State University. Last April ...

Marine biologists from Australia have revealed that male-blue lined octopuses (Hapalochlaena fasciata) deliver a precise venomous bite to females before mating. And why? Because the females of the ...

"This study provides the most robust analysis yet of megalodon's body size and shape," said Phillip Sternes, a shark biologist who ... or even extinct marine reptiles, follow similar patterns ...

UCR biologist who contributed insights to the study on how animals move through water. “Similarly, evolution moves toward efficiency, much of the time.” The study highlights how large aquatic animals ...

The Murphys also organised conferences on both Sherkin and the mainland, where they invited marine biologists to speak and in the 1980s and 1990s. Mr Murphy organised an annual Sherkin Ireland ...

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File picture: Denis Minihane. Many marine biologists and other scientists have attended conferences and workshops on Sherkin Island and on the mainland over the years since 1975. And from the ...

Pope Francis has appointed a NASA geophysicist, a Harvard genetics professor, and a Chinese embryonic development researcher among five new members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the ...

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The ocean is no doubt our planet’s last great frontier, with deep sea flora and fauna still very much a mystery to humanity. But now researchers say that after 40 years of scouring the planet’ ...