Great white sharks are thriving in Monterey Bay thanks to warming waters, study shows
If you're heading out to California's Monterey Bay this summer, you're going to need a bigger boat.
If you're heading out to California's Monterey Bay this summer, you're going to need a bigger boat.
Plants & Animals
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A pair of Orca (Killer Whales) that have been terrorizing and killing Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa since 2017 has managed to drive large numbers of the sharks from their natural aggregation site.
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2022
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Animals that live in groups tend to be more protected from predators. That idea might be common sense, but it's difficult to test for some species, especially for wild populations of fish that live in the ocean.
Ecology
Jun 29, 2022
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New Princeton research shows that prehistoric megatooth sharks—the biggest sharks that ever lived—were apex predators at the highest level ever measured.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2022
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A hotter ocean is a hungrier ocean—at least as far as fish predators are concerned. In a new field study published online June 9 in Science, Smithsonian scientists discovered predator impacts in the Atlantic and Pacific ...
Ecology
Jun 9, 2022
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They click. They whistle. They love seafood. They are New York City's nearshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that return to feed in local waters from spring to fall each year, and a team of scientists led by the ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2022
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Native species in California's estuaries are expected to experience greater declines as invasive species interact with climate change, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
Ecology
May 5, 2022
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Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species ...
Ecology
Apr 12, 2022
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Although time is in short supply in the war against the lionfish invasion in the Atlantic and Caribbean, a University of Alberta study suggests taking time to plan the where, when and who of this fight will give wildlife ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 10, 2022
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Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number in the octillions and are ...
Ecology
Jan 3, 2022
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