Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

Some 20,000 years ago, when the last ice age was at its peak, a marine animal with an ultrashort lifespan of just one month, really lived in the moment. In its brief and wondrous life, the ...

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Bacteria hitchhiking on marine snow can dissolve its calcium carbonate ballast, slowing the particles’ descent.

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...

Sitting atop the crow’s nest of a small barge, the boat captain shielded his eyes from the July sun and pitched his gaze to the commotion below. The hum of heavy equipment and the clatter of oyster ...