Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a ...

SAN DIEGO — County and state health officials are warning residents not to eat locally sport-harvested bivalve shellfish due to dangerous levels of domoic acid detected in mussels in the area.

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

Individual tissues (e.g., muscles) of organisms can offer extended insights into their dietary habits (McIntyre and Flecker, 2006); thus, the white dorsal muscles from every captured fish and the soft ...

brocksi and found the fish primarily fed on various types of phantom midge larvae — an almost transparent insect larvae — along with insect wings and even a small bivalve, or a mollusk with ...

Oysters Kilpatrick are essential if they’re on the specials board, each bivalve’s slice of bacon as thick as a novella. Throw in a celery-forward caesar salad, and you’ve got the ideal ...

In accordance with the first objective of this program, a survey of benthic invertebrates in Macquarie Harbour was conducted in order to establish the current status of this community. The use of ...

The menu changes seasonally, but you can always count on a handful of classics, like the oysters — fresh bivalves served raw, smoked, fried and roasted. Visit on Wednesday for Prime Rib Night ...

The NST allows for more precise categorization of the relative contributions of stochastic and deterministic processes in benthic community construction and provides a more comprehensive perspective ...