Peter Wallerstein realized something was seriously wrong when a sea lion pup turned up seven miles inland at a cellphone store in California.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are causing oceans to become more acidic. This situation poses a threat to marine organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 09, 2013 3.5 / 5 (6) 18 |

Researchers from Granada have managed to breed for the first time in captivity a marine animal known as the snakelocks anemone, (Anemonia sulcata), and have also begun breeding a species of sea cucumber (Sticophus ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —As the world's oceans soak up carbon dioxide from an atmosphere increasingly polluted by fossil fuels, seawater will become more acidic. Two new studies by San Francisco State University students ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 08, 2013 not rated yet 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

One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world – and the best studied – is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new research reveals. Based on over 10 years' ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights into life in the sea depths. The discovery was made almost a mile below the surface ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 18, 2013 4.1 / 5 (14) 1 |

A Flinders University researcher is digging up the past to solve problems of the future.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Christopher Cameron of the University of Montreal's Department of Biological Sciences and his colleagues have unearthed a major scientific discovery - a strange phallus-shaped creature they found in Canada's ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (14) 14 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US has found significant amounts of particulate iron in runoff from glacial melting in Greenland. Their paper is published ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 11, 2013 3.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

The newly described species Alburnoides manyasensis, belongs the large carp family Cyprinidae that includes freshwater fishes such as he carps, the minnows, and their relatives. This is the largest fish f ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 08, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

A 4.5 tonne sperm whale that washed ashore in southern Spain died from ingesting large amounts of plastic sheets used in greenhouses on farms in the region, a scientist said Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Scientists are delving deep into the travels of whales—thanks to high-tech tracking devices—to try to help protect them.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 24, 2013 not rated yet 0

The first scientific examinations of data recorded during a record-setting expedition have yielded new insights about the diversity of creatures that live and thrive in the cold, dark, and highly pressurized habitats of the ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 22, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

A research team at the Sars Centre in Norway and the University Vienna has shed new light on the evolutionary origin of the head. In a study published in the journal PLoS Biology they show that in a simp ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 3