Group formation in animals is a widespread phenomenon driven by food acquisition, reproduction, and defense. Life in the ocean is characteristically aggregated into horizontally extensive layers as a ...

Risso’s dolphins have been observed to perform a rapid sprint coupled with a spin when starting a dive, even though this highly energetic movement costs considerably more energy than normal, much ...

Deep below the surface of the Pacific, some of the planet’s largest predators are quietly inhaling astonishing numbers of squid, with new research showing that individual whales can consume up to 202 ...

This is a common press release of Stockholm University and the Alfred Wegener Institute. Single individuals of Atlantic cod and squid occur much further north than previously expected. Scientists ...

In World War II, naval sonar operators spotted something strange: a 'false seafloor' hundreds of metres below the surface of the water, that mysteriously moved closer to the surface at night. They ...