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The claim is startling and the evidence indirect, but marine biologists seem open to the idea that multicellular animals can live without oxygen. Three species of loriciferan, a creature that sounds and looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, appear to go their whole lives without oxygen, researchers report online April 6 in BMC…

The claim is startling and the evidence indirect, but marine biologists seem open to the idea that multicellular animals can live without oxygen. Subscription needed: Read more …

Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NOAA have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered—West Mata Volcano—describing high-definition video of the undersea eruption as “spectacular.” “For the first time we have been able to examine, up close, the way ocean islands and submarine volcanoes are born,” said Barbara Ransom, program director in…

In the oceans of a moon hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, something fishy may be alive—right now. Below its icy crust Jupiter‘s moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a hundred miles (160 kilometers) deep, with no land to speak of at the surface. Read more …

Royal Research Ships, it seems, are a little like giant telescopes. Instead of buying, or hiring one, and sailing away to conduct their experiments in a one-off voyage, scientists “book time” on the research ship that’s passing closest to the feature they want to study. The ships themselves plough endlessly this way and that across…