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Environment May 2, 2024

Scientists advance research of harmful PFAS chemicals and their impacts

A bemused fishmonger at a seafood market in Portsmouth, N.H., weighed and packaged a dozen filets of fish and three lobster tails for his unusually exacting customers, Dartmouth researchers Celia Chen, Guarini, a research ...

Plants & Animals May 1, 2024

Marine sharks and rays 'use' urea to delay reproduction, finds study

Urea—the main component of human urine—plays an important role in the timing of maturation of sharks, rays and other cartilaginous fish.

Ecology Apr 28, 2024

Longer-lasting ozone holes over Antarctica expose seal pups and penguin chicks to much more UV

Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink.

Plants & Animals Apr 23, 2024

Advances in understanding the evolution of stomach loss in agastric fishes

Living beings can evolve to lose biological structures due to potential survival benefits from such losses. For example, certain groups of ray-finned fishes show such regressive evolution—medakas, minnows, puffera, and ...

Plants & Animals Apr 19, 2024

Why zebrafish can regenerate damaged heart tissue, while other fish species cannot

A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals, including some fish and amphibians, can clear cardiac scar tissue and regrow damaged muscle as adults.

Plants & Animals Apr 19, 2024

Baby white sharks prefer being closer to shore, scientists find

Remember #BabyShark? And no, this was not the very catchy song for kids that took the internet by storm. Earlier this year, social media was abuzz with stunning footage of a newborn great white shark, captured by a flying ...

Ecology Mar 28, 2024

Sawfish are spinning, and dying, in Florida waters as rescue effort begins

Endangered smalltooth sawfish, marine creatures virtually unchanged for millions of years, are exhibiting erratic spinning behavior and dying in unusual numbers in Florida waters. Federal and state wildlife agencies are beginning ...

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 27, 2024

Scientists discover endoparasitic marine tapeworm trapped in Cretaceous amber

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese ...

Evolution Mar 21, 2024

Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought

In a new study published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology, an international team of scientists led by paleobiologist Julia Türtscher from the University of Vienna has explored the puzzling world of rays that lived ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 11, 2024

Scientists design bifunctional catalyst to address environmental pollution problems

A team of researchers from Bohai University in China has designed and synthesized a bifunctional catalyst that can solve the environmental pollution caused by mustard gas and phenolic compounds. They synthesized this bifunctional ...

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