The Marine Vertebrate Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (ASIH Collection Code: SIO) maintains approximately two million alcohol-preserved specimens in over 120,000 lots, representing ...

Marine vertebrates must surface to transmit data (Holland et al. 2009). Tri-axial accelerometer tags record detailed three-dimensional movements of tagged animals. This generates a thorough ...

Discover the watery world of jellyfish, seahorses, sharks and other ocean creatures. Learn about the characteristics of marine vertebrates and invertebrates by observing museum specimens. Science ...

The SIO Marine Vertebrates Collection has over 1,050 species represented in the skeletal collection. This collection consists of dried skeletal preparations, indicated by "S" (usually as skulls with ...

Many air-breathing marine vertebrates optimize their swim depth when transiting and not feeding, traveling just deep enough to avoid wave creation on the surface. Credit: Phillip Island Nature Parks.

New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, ...

Mosasaurs are extinct marine lizards, spectacular examples of which were first discovered in 1766 near Maastricht in the Netherlands, fueling the rise of the field of vertebrate palaeontology (the ...

Satellite telemetry has been used for large marine vertebrates since the early 1980s, and since then, studies have increased in the duration as well as the scope of satellite tracking (Hart ...