Lurking in oceans from the tropics to the Arctic, a tiny transparent creature with barrel-shaped body and visible orange ...

The Teeming Universe explores scientifically inspired alien ecosystems across radically different planets. One frozen world ...

What's the Bonin Islands? / Kazuto Kawakami -- Impacts of invasive alien species on native ecosystems on the Bonin Islands / Naoki Kachi -- The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands / ...

Bizarre Frankenstein shorelines made of floating plastic have triggered an unusual transformation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, spawning a new ecosystem. Marine scientists have discovered that ...

Researchers have discovered a highly specialized community of sea creatures living 6 miles beneath the ocean surface—deeper than any found before. Reading time 2 minutes Researchers recently dove more ...

Introduced species generally get a bad press – but not all alien invaders are villains, says Ken Thompson in Where Do Camels Belong? WE HAVE all heard a lot of bad stuff about introduced species: they ...

Discusses the threat of non-native plants and animals to U.S. species and ecosystems. Highlights twelve alien species (the "dirty dozen"): zebra mussel, purple loosestrife, flathead catfish, tamarisk, ...