They also don’t hear the blood going through their veins, although that is a popular misconception. What is it exactly that causes the roaring sound when the shell gets close to your ear? Children are ...

New research suggests oysters may rely on hidden microbes to help build their shells and maintain chemistry as oceans grow more acidic.

If you hold up a seashell to your ear and listen, you may hear what sounds like rolling waves and wind. But it’s not actually the ocean. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, what exactly is it that ...

Several times over the past months we’ve noted the anticipated effects of ocean acidification. As the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content increases, some of it mixes with ocean water, forming carbonic ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

Before you hit the Jersey Shore this summer, it may be wise to think twice if you happen upon a massive whelk shell on the beach that your kid wants to take home. Or even a live sand dollar, which ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Climate change in the past can tell us much about what is happening today. New research shows how plankton shells dredged ...