Based in Almaty, the institute has long been at the forefront of Caspian seal research. Scientists at the institute conduct ...

In Madagascar, Africa’s first sturgeon farm is producing caviar – and it’s made its way into some of the most prestigious ...

A new US Department of Energy survey provides updated data on oil & natural gas production in the CaspianBasin. It shows that ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Striking gold jewelry and weapons made by Sarmatian nomads have been unearthed from three burial mounds in Kazakhstan that ...

Researchers have confirmed the presence of a soupfin shark in the Salish Sea, an area where they were not previously thought ...

The marine photographer who captured the footage said it could be the world's first recorded sighting of a black seadevil ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...