Our seas are gigantic heat storage systemsThe oceans absorb 90 percent of the additional heat energy produced by rising greenhouse concentrations in t...

150 million year old fossil with teeth like a piranhaIn the approximately 150 million year old limescale in the quarry Ettling a sensational new speci...

Pink pigments of cyanobacteria are 1.1 billion years oldScientists have discovered the oldest colours: a geological record. The 1.1 billion year old b...

Study shows genetic link between cave-dwelling shrimps in Israel and ItalyThe only a few centimetres large troglobitic shrimp that live in various cav...

Microalgae communities in coastal waters remain productive under variable environmental conditionsThey are the basis of the Arctic food web - and extr...

Research team discovers fossils at 730 meters depthWith an age of 3.5 million years, stromatolites are among the oldest fossils. However, lime deposit...

Fossil coral reefs as a key to 6000 years of developmentThe sea level rises according to current forecasts between 80 and 180 centimetres by the end o...

International researchers investigate gas emissions in Arctic Large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane are trapped in the Arctic seabed. If it...

International researchers discover development of ocean currents The Gulf Stream transports ocean heat across the Atlantic towards the northeast a...

Research will improve forecasts for global sea levels How has alternating warm and cold time periods affected the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? What d...

Experience natural history in virtual realitySeven German organisations are the latest addition to Google Arts & Culture's natural history exhibit...

An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has managed to shed some ...

This year, step into the fascinating world of cephalopods, at the German Oceanographic Museum's Meeresmuseum and Ozeaneum. That's because 2016 is dedi...