Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 26, 2013 3.7 / 5 (50) 93 |

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 |

(Phys.org)—A new image from ESO's VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Feb 20, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 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 |

Scientists have finally figured out how to determine the age of a lobster.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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House finches avoid sick members of their own species, scientists said in a finding that could be useful for tracking the spread of diseases like bird flu that also affects humans.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Discovering direct animal behavior from the fossil record can only be done in exceptional circumstances. Such circumstances exist in the German Posidonia gas shale from the Jurassic period ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 08, 2012 5 / 5 (11) 1 |

Golfers on the high seas can breathe a little easier -- and so can the marine life around them -- thanks to researchers at the University of Maine. In conjunction with The Lobster Institute, UMaine Biological ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 30, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

Crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans represent the most common species in the world's seas, and the waters of Australia and Japan are the most diverse, according to a vast inventory of marine life published ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 02, 2010 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a dazzling stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). An active star-forming region of ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jul 07, 2009 4.2 / 5 (5) 2

(AP) -- Skip Ryan has worked the same channel into Boston Harbor for 50 years, setting and hauling his lobster traps so often that he is certain of one thing.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 23, 2009 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help improve ocean circulation models ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 09, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world's oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, new research by the University ...

Biology - Ecology

May 20, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers have made some significant breakthroughs in understanding the early growth and survival of Australia's most valuable single-species fishery, the western rock lobster.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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Sea hares are not the favourite food choice of many marine inhabitants, and it's easy to see why when you find out about the chemical weapons they employ when provoked – namely, two unpalatable secretions, ink and opaline, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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