A study suggests that several species of brown algae may have independently evolved to express both sexes simultaneously, and it’s likely that female algae evolved male traits—not the other way around ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks are warning residents of the ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis ...

Have you ever seen brown or green goo floating on a river or in the ocean? Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is ...

SeaWorld San Diego says it is getting up to 100 calls and emails a day from people reporting seeing sick animals ...

Chameleon shrimp can change their color to camouflage themselves among the algae they inhabit, helping them to escape from predators. Their appearance shifts from red, brown, green, or even ...

Moment, Ah-Hy u ng Alissa Park, and colleagues have developed an alkaline thermal treatment to break down the polysaccharid e ...

As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked with Akira Peters and Mark Cock to establish the brown algae Ectocarpus as a model organism in evolutionary research. Since 2006 she worked at the Centre National ...