News tagged with bryozoans
Unknown animals nearly invisible but yet there
Bryozoans (moss animals) are a group of aquatic invertebrates that are found in great variety throughout the world, with well over 100 species in Sweden alone. Yet little is known about them. Researchers at ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Marine animals suggest evidence for a trans-Antarctic seaway
A tiny marine filter-feeder, that anchors itself to the sea bed, offers new clues to scientists studying the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - a region that is thought to be vulnerable to collapse.
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Aug 31, 2010 |
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Climate change affects marine animals on Antarctica's seabed
A rapid increase in the frequency of icebergs pounding the shallow seafloor around the West Antarctic Peninsula — as a result of shrinking winter sea ice — has caused the life expectancy of a tiny ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Can marine life adapt to global change?
A team of researchers from the University of Plymouth, the Marine Biological Association of the UK and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory have conducted an exciting new study looking into the potential effect ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Captain Scott's century-old collections suggests marine life is capturing more carbon
Tiny Antarctic marine creatures collected 100 years ago by Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott give new clues about polar environmental change. By comparing present-day bryozoans – a sea-bed filter-feeding ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Carbon sink at South Pole has grown recently, historical collections reveal
By studying collections of a marine bryozoan that date back to a famous 1901 expedition to the South Pole, researchers have found that those organisms were growing steadily up until 1990, when their growth more than doubled. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2011 |
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VIMS scientists help solve mystery of 'alien pod'
Tracy Collier, an employee at Home Technologies in Newport News, Virginia, was walking her employer's Westie around the Center's manmade lake on Thursday when she saw a large, mysterious blob floating in the ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Invasive animals threaten natives as oceans heat up
Warmer oceans promote invasive animals and threaten natives, say UC Davis marine biologists who report striking new evidence from the eastern Pacific fishing harbor of Bodega Bay, Calif.
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Scientists prove all major animal groups with internal, external skeletons appeared in the Cambrian period
(PhysOrg.com) -- New York State Paleontologist Dr. Ed Landing is the lead author of an article published in the June issue of Geology that provides the first definitive proof that all major animal groups with internal and ex ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually
Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs
Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia -- waters long familiar ...
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Meteor no longer prime suspect in great extinction
The greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history also may have been one of the slowest, according to a study that casts further doubt on the extinction-by-meteor theory.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2007 |
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