John Dabiri isn’t an oceanographer. And he’s not a biologist. But for more than a decade, he’s been studying tiny shrimp swimming through water. It hasn’t always been easy. In 2014, he found his ...

Apparently, the ability to glow doesn’t make you special — if you’re a shrimp in the deep sea. Scientists have discovered bioluminescence is actually pretty common among deep-sea shrimp, with a new ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications Biology. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming ...

Trawlers off Taiwan caught a deep-sea predator with “very large” eyes and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Around an island off mainland Taiwan, shrimp trawlers hauled ...

More than 2,000 feet below the surface off the coast of Japan, a new species was discovered. Chong CHEN / JAMSTEC Aboard the Yokosuka cruise, a group of researchers ventured out to sea off the ...

Caridean shrimp like this one carry pollen between male and female sea grass flowers. Image Credit: Enrique Dans via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0. Just when you thought nature couldn’t get any ...

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments are unique ecosystems where geological activity creates extreme physicochemical conditions. In these habitats, chemosynthetic processes underpin primary ...