When assessing the extinction risk of marine invertebrates, understanding the specific drivers of population decline is critical. For high-value marine species like sea cucumbers, international commer...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is tasked with regulating mineral mining in international waters – activities that will inevitably impact marine ecosystems and the species that call them home...

Last week, Senckenberg Nature Research had the pleasure of hosting the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) at our Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Held...

Without formal Red List assessments, rapid population declines across sea stars, brittle stars, feather stars and sea lilies remain invisible to the public and even resource managers. The IUCN SSC Mar...

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From July 6–10, Senckenberg researchers joined crustacean experts from around the globe at one of the field’s most important gatherings: The Crustacean Society (TCS) Summer Meeting 2025, organized by ...

Senckenberg Nature Research scientists explored one of the deepest and least-known parts of the ocean, the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and nearby regions in the Northwest Pacific. In doing so, they uncover...

Senckenberg Nature Research scientists discovered a brand-new species of a deep-sea swimming isopod in the Aleutian Trench, in the Pacific Ocean. This new species – at 65 millimeters long – is the lar...

Last week, Senckenberg Nature Research’s Prof. Dr.

Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...

Shells of abalone snails have long been admired for their beautiful iridescent mother-of-pearl lining. But researcher, Nur Syahirah Mamat, is fascinated by their shells for a completely different reas...

Fossils of two new worm-like aculiferan species add to the diversity of this group, showing that evolution in early aculiferans generated unusual forms comparable to other crown-group molluscs.

Senckenberg PhD student Kasia Vončina recently journeyed to Australia to explore chiton collections and collect specimens for her fascinating research on these unique marine molluscs.

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A global review highlighted the urgency of taking action to save these animals from extinction. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Blog authored by DSCC Executive Director, Sian Owen On World Ocean Day 2024, we launched an opportunity for our community to help name a new- to-science deep-sea coral. On October 30th, at the 16th Co...

Baku, Azerbaijan, 13 November 2024 (IUCN) – Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global a...

This is the first time that deep-sea corals have been included globally on the IUCN Red List.

But it’s not all good news. Alarmingly, half of all giant clams are at risk of extinction, largely because of overfishing.

Brasileiro foi pioneiro no uso de microtomografia para caracterização taxonômica de invertebrados marinhos

Risco de extinção faz rede mundial de taxonomistas acelerar o processo de descrição de novas espécies marinhas

Discoveries of new species often depend on one or a few specimens, leading to delays as researchers wait for additional context, sometimes for decades. There is currently little professional incentive...

Marine biologists support federal proposal, but the aquarium industry worries it may be counterproductive