Westminster University researchers recently received $50,000 to explore how water salinity and other variables impact a vital ...

A lot of people do. By Tanya Sichynsky A keen consumer of shellfish, Tanya Sichynsky hosts an annual shrimp cocktail party. The shrimp cocktail at the comically exclusive Polo Bar in Manhattan is ...

The brine pools, located in the Gulf of Aqaba, are up to ten times saltier than normal seawater and lack oxygen, causing any marine creature that enters them to either be anesthetized or die ...

However, the brine pools are a rich oasis of life. Thick carpets of microbes support a diverse suite of animals." The team found 'fish, shrimp and eels that appear to use the brine to hunt', Purkis ...

The mantis shrimp comes equipped with its own weapons. It has claws that look like permanently clenched fists that are known as dactyl clubs. But when it smashes the shells of its prey ...

Earth is teeming with organisms that manage to survive in the most extreme environments, including in some rare deep-sea brine pools in the Red Sea, which very nearly went undiscovered.