Seaweed plays a critical role in the world's underwater ecosystem. Its cultivation and mass production for human consumption is also a major plus, since seaweed has many unique properties and ...

Fragments of seaweed are often caught in deep-sea trawls, or recorded by submarines and underwater robots during surveys of the ocean floor. Seaweed DNA has been detected in deep sea water and ...

This might look like any ordinary patch of underwater seaweed, but it’s not. It is what experts say is a patch of maerl, a rare and ancient type of seaweed and they have just discovered an enormous ...

Divers have discovered stunning large beds of rare pink calcified seaweed near the southern Cornwall coast - which has been dubbed an “underwater Barbieland”. The areas are reportedly a ...

Scientists studying the restoration of underwater seaweed forests which provide other species with food and shelter have found that 10 years of restoration efforts have helped a damaged forest ...