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New exploration shows parts of North Atlantic seabed were once above sea level

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data obtained from oil searching contractors, researchers have discovered that parts of what is now the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland, were at one time raised up enough ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

'Goldilocks Zone' may go colder than previously thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- The survival of life on Earth is possible only within a relatively narrow temperature range known as the "Goldilocks Zone," which ranges from around 0 to 100°C. In many ecosystems life is ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Scientists finding sink holes in Great Lakes

Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments.

Biology / Ecology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 2

Five-limbed brittle stars move bilaterally, like people

It appears that the brittle star, the humble, five-limbed dragnet of the seabed, moves very similarly to us.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Glass sponge as a living climate archive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists have discovered a new archive of historical sea temperatures. With the help of the skeleton of a sponge that belongs to the Monorhaphis chuni species and that lived in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes

Exploding carcasses through putrefaction gases - this is how science explained the mysterious bone arrangements in almost fully preserved dinosaur skeletons for decades. Now a Swiss-German research team has ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Oceanographers develop method for measuring the pace of life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. But the slow-growing bacteria living many meters beneath the seafloor play an important role in the global storage of organic carbon and have a long-term effect ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gas hydrate strategy reinforced

Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Quake-prone Japan looks at geothermal energy

The forces that make Japan one of the world's most quake-prone and volcanic countries, and sparked a nuclear disaster, could become part of its long-term energy solution, experts say.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 13

Visualizing the flow of molten rock through seabed mantle

New information about how most of the Earth’s crust formed has been uncovered by investigators who utilized the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to obtain unprecedented, three-dimensional ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Greater tsunami threat identified

The shape of the seabed where the 2004 Sumatra earthquake struck may indicate that the strength of the underlying rocks added to the size of the resulting tsunami, according to new research.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan's mega-quake struck in small zone of fault: study

The deadly 9.0-magnitude quake that struck off northeastern Japan on March 11 ruptured a relatively small part of a notorious fault that straddles the Pacific seabed, Japanese scientists reported on Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists find new squid in Indian Ocean depths

Scientists have uncovered a new large species of squid among 70 types gathered during an exploration of the depths of the Indian Ocean, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said on Monday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Coccolithophore blooms in the southwest Atlantic

A study led by Dr Stuart Painter of the National Oceanography Centre helps explain the formation of huge phytoplankton blooms off the southeast coast of South America during the austral summer (December-January). ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast