(Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were not ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark ...

A global analysis by St. Joseph’s University on Long Island examines the prevalence of microplastics in marine life. Dr. Konstantine Rountos, who led the study, is an associate professor of biology at ...

In Santa Caterina, a town along the inward coast of Puglia (Italy's "heel"), eco-artist and environmental activist Vanessa Albury was hard at work this summer developing eco-friendly ceramic ...

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Paleontologists have discovered a bizarre worm-like creature from the Cambrian Period that has features associated with three groups of living animals. Just a half-inch long and covered in bristles, ...

Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter. Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny ...

We describe a new species of enigmatic stalked filter feeder, Siphusauctum lloydguntheri, from the middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) Antimony Canyon locality of the Spence Shale of northern Utah.