Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilized animal waste may have recycled nutrients and helped complex marine ecosystems flourish during the Cambrian Explosion.

Animals use long-distance calls shaped by physics, environment, and body size to communicate across miles. Land mammals adapt calls mainly to habitat and noise, while aquatic mammals rely more on body ...

The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme environments, potentially boosting hopes for finding life beyond Earth. Reading time 4 ...

Climate change may be destroying coral reefs with the acidification of our ocean waters, and warming oceans have caused dolphins and tropical fish species to increase or change their ranges, but the ...

Rising human exploitation of the oceans is pushing ever further into regions that scientists increasingly suspect are full of conscious life. New research into creatures from sperm whales to octopuses ...

Shipping is one of the main sources of human-made sound in the ocean. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images In the early days of the pandemic, shipping activity around the world plummeted, ...

Ancient animal waste may have helped transform Earth’s oceans more than 500 million years ago. A new international study led by Flinders University argues that fossilized feces played a key role in ...