A new alternative bait product that will help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested from the Delaware Bay has been introduced.

Biology - Ecology

May 30, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, crude oil toxicity continues to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 01, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org) —An annual aerial survey led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that the abundance of underwater grasses in Chesapeake Bay and its tidal rivers declined 24% between ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 26, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The large cargo ships that steam daily into Newark Bay unload more than the colorful containers stacked on deck - from their holds they also can release millions of gallons of water teeming with tiny sea creatures from faraway ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Ecologists are wary of non-native species, but along the shores of Cape Cod where grass-eating crabs have been running amok and destroying the marsh, an invasion of a predatory green crabs has ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 03, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Tiny sea creatures no bigger than a thumbtack are being credited for playing a key role in helping provide healthy habitats for many kinds of seafood, according to a new study by the Virginia Institute of ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 02, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The term 'living fossil' has a controversial history. For decades, scientists have argued about its usefulness as it appears to suggest that some organisms have stopped evolving. New research has now investigated ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 02, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

A study published today in Biology Letters found that ship noise affects crab metabolism, with largest crabs faring worst, and found little evidence that crabs acclimatise to noise over time.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 26, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

Furry crabs once thought to be damaging the Great Barrier Reef may in fact be helping save the coral by stopping the spread of disease, a researcher said.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 05, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

Beach and habitat losses attributable to Superstorm Sandy have wildlife groups scrambling to repair the damage by the time spring birds arrive.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

A University of Florida scientist has discovered a record biodiversity hotspot in Spain for 100-million-year-old crustaceans with possible implications for present-day species living in reefs, which are declining ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 24, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

The latest study by Professor Bob Elwood and Barry Magee from Queen's School of Biological Sciences looked at the reactions of common shore crabs to small electrical shocks, and their behaviour after experiencing ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 16, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 6

(Phys.org)—The Herschel space observatory has produced an intricate view of the remains of a star that died in a stellar explosion a millennium ago. It has provided further proof that the interstellar dust ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 08, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 8 |

(Phys.org)—The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory has produced an intricate view of the remains of a star that died in a stellar explosion a millennium ago. This new view provides further ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Dec 18, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

(Phys.org)—If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 30, 2012 5 / 5 (19) 92 |