The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else—a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the ...

Tom Reimann is a writer and comedian and somehow Senior Editor of Features at Collider. He has written for Cracked.com, Mad Magazine, BunnyEars.com, and Some More News, and is the co-founder of the ...

From sea shores to salt flats, a high incidence of spiders spin a life in or around water. Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences and William Paterson University found that nearly one fifth ...

Researchers have found that nearly one fifth of all spider families are associated with saltwater or freshwater aquatic habitats. Their findings address the common misconception that all spiders dwell ...

An ecosystem is an environment that includes soil, water, air, nutrients, sunlight, climate plus all of the organisms that live in that environment. An ecosystem is about interactions. The organisms ...

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou: Comedy-fantasy. Starring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Cate Blanchett. Directed by Wes Anderson. (R. 115 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Onscreen, Bill Murray has ...

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou finds director/writer Wes Anderson once again discovering quirk and insanity in the completely mundane. He plumbs the depths of singular filmmaking this time by ...

Studies have shown that the same active ingredients in sunscreens that protect people from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays can be toxic to a range of species in oceans, rivers and lakes. With both of ...

New research suggests that temperature can largely explain why the greatest variety of aquatic life resides in the tropics -- but also why it has not always and, amid record-fast global warming, soon ...

A quirky, fantastical adventure, helmer-scribe Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou” dives into the world of fictional oceanographer/filmmaker Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) on a journey of ...