The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 86,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 9,000+ species from ...

Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there ...

Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, ...

Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the oceans, which remain largely unexplored. To date, only a small fraction of an estimated two million total ...

Researchers led by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa have found that a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean on floating plastic ...

The deep ocean off southern California has historically been a dumping ground for the pesticide DDT and other industrial wastes. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and collaborators are investigating ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Oceanic islands host 50 percent of the world’s endangered species, but human activities can greatly disturb these isolated ecosystems. The number ...