Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

Researchers unearthed a surprising seafloor discovery: a highly organized city of fish nests with striking geometric patterns in a remote part of the Western Weddell Sea, an area that had been covered ...

How do sea molluscs create the consistent patterns on their shells? How do they know when and how to change the pigment?

Is it a butterfly? A bee? An alien? Nope! It’s a sea snail. A sea snail. From the sea. This aptly-named Arctic “sea butterfly” (Limacina helicina) is the subject of a new study in the Journal of ...

A major shift in western Arctic wind patterns occurred throughout the winter of 2017 and the resulting changes in sea ice movement are possible indicators of a changing climate, says a researcher. A ...

Earth has seen some highly unusual weather patterns over the past three years, and three new studies published this year point to Arctic sea loss as a potential important driver of some of these ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This month marks the beginning of the ...