California aquarium welcomes birth of baby sea otter
There's another reason to rejoice this holiday season: the birth of a wild sea otter at a California aquarium.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2015
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News tagged with monterey bay aquarium
Jellyfish venom capsule length association with pain
Since the PLOS San Francisco office is a quick car ride from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, so many of us at PLOS have been captivated by jellyfish movements. They are simply mesmerizing to watch as they travel through the water. ...
Ecology
Oct 8, 2015
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Stanford scientists help discover Pacific bluefin tunas' favorite feeding spots
After chowing down a big meal, you might feel your belly warm as your stomach muscles and digestive organs set to work breaking your food into smaller and smaller pieces rich in nutrients. A bluefin tuna's stomach experiences ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2015
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Pink octopus so cute it may be named 'adorabilis'
Some say she looks like a ghost from the Pac-Man video game, but she's anything but spooky. In fact, the fist-sized pink octopus is so cute scientists may call her "Opisthoteuthis Adorabilis."
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2015
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Faster, portable microbial analysis in the field
Until recently, it took hours – sometimes days – to analyze biological samples after they were frozen in the field and brought back to the laboratory. But now there is a faster, cheaper and smaller way for researchers ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 25, 2015
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Energy demands of raising a pup push sea otter moms to the limit
Parents often complain that child-rearing is exhausting, but consider the poor sea otter mom. By the time a sea otter pup is weaned, its mother may be so depleted physiologically that she is unable to survive the stress of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2014
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Public gets first view of a live vampire squid and other deep-sea cephalopods
From the vampire squid to the flapjack octopus, deep-sea cephalopods come in an amazing variety of shapes and sizes. Yet few humans have seen these animals alive. Since April, members of the public have been able to see these ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2014
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Monitoring impacts of changing Gulf of Maine conditions on New England red tide
(Phys.org) —Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are kicking off an innovative NOAA-funded pilot program using robotic instruments and computer modeling analysis to shed light on changing ocean ...
Environment
May 8, 2014
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DNA detectives able to 'count' thousands of fish using as little as a glass of water
A mere glass full of water from Monterey Bay Aquarium's 1.2 million-gallon Open Sea tank, among the 10 largest aquariums in the world, is all scientists really needed to identify the Pacific Bluefin tuna, dolphinfish and ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2014
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Unexpected interaction between ocean currents and bacteria
For the first time, researchers have successfully demonstrated an interaction between ocean currents and bacteria: The unexpected interaction leads to the production of vast amounts of nitrogen gas in the Pacific Ocean. This ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2013
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