Australia has one of the longest coastlines in the world. And it's packed with life of all shapes and sizes—from lively dolphins leaping offshore, to tiny crabs scurrying into their holes.
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2022
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Tiny microbes belching toxic gas helped cause—and prolong—the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history, a new study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2021
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Our oceans are under pressure like never before, with over 60% struggling from the increasing impact of fishing, coastal activities and climate change. The harsh truth is that as we move towards 2022 only 3% of oceans are ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2021
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When biology student Mike Groenhof was making a phylogenetic tree of fifty shrimp species for his internship, one specimen turned out to be an undescribed species. The animal was collected by Naturalis scientist 18 years ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2021
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When an atmospheric river hit British Columbia in mid-November, it unleashed record-breaking rainfall triggering devastating floods and mudslides. The provincial government declared a state of emergency on Nov. 17, activating ...
Agriculture
Dec 2, 2021
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The ocean's dark depths hold many secrets. For more than three decades, MBARI has been exploring the deep waters off the coast of central California. During an expedition aboard the R/V Western Flyer in 2019, ROV pilot Randy ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2021
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A federal agency announced Tuesday that it is taking a step toward designating a new national marine sanctuary off the central California coast that would be named for the region's Indigenous people.
Ecology
Nov 9, 2021
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Perched high above the waves about nine miles off the coast of Huntington Beach, the oil processing platform known as Elly looks like an industrial eyesore—a tangle of hard metal surfaces, cranes and pipes.
Environment
Oct 11, 2021
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Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising pattern in how life reemerges from cataclysm. Research published Oct. 6 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows the usual rules of body size evolution change ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 6, 2021
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Not long after the dawn of complex animal life, tens of millions of years before the first of the "Big Five" mass extinctions, a rash of die-offs struck the world's oceans. Then, for reasons that scientists have debated for ...
Ecology
Oct 5, 2021
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