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 ...

Crashing waves aren’t the only tumultuous parts of the sea. Far beneath any ocean’s surface, immensely heavy layers of water are constantly turning over, like the icy contents of 7-Eleven Slurpee ...

Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on October 7 have made the surprising discovery that one species of comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) can fuse, such that two individuals readily turn ...

Ever seen legs like these? You’re looking at the legs of a brine shrimp, also known as a sea monkey. But these are not just ordinary legs. As brine shrimp rhythmically beat their legs, they are using ...

TTUHSC’s Pablo Artigas, Ph.D., led a research team that examined the advantages a NKA α subunit variant provides to the ability of brine shrimp to survive in extreme salinity. Their study was ...

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Mitch Schieber got into the shrimp farming business by chance. He does remodeling for a living, but he had been looking at different careers. Then, a couple of years ago, his daughter, who was in ...