Environment
Aug 21, 2011
In warmer Greenland, shoot the dogs, drill for oil
(AP) -- The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people's frozen lands.
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Ecology
Aug 2, 2011
NW tribes drive effort to save primitive fish
(AP) -- As long as American Indians have lived in the Pacific Northwest, they have looked to a jawless, eel-like fish for food.
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2011
The first single-fingered dinosaur
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China.
Archaeology
Jul 14, 2010
Fossil find puts a face on early primates (w/ Video)
When paleontologist Iyad Zalmout went looking for fossil whales and dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia, he never expected to come face-to-face with a significant, early primate fossil.
Plants & Animals
May 28, 2010
Biologists report how whales have changed over 35 million years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whales are remarkably diverse, with 84 living species of dramatically different sizes and more than 400 other species that have gone extinct, including some that lived partly on land. Why are there so many ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2010
Leviathans battle in remote depths: Great white sharks may migrate so they can dine on giant squids
In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids.
Archaeology
Dec 22, 2009
Australian fossil unlocks secrets to the origin of whales
Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25 million year old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria.
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2009
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)
Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down ...
Archaeology
Feb 4, 2009
Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.
Feb 25, 2008
Krill discovered living in the Antarctic abyss
Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3000 metres in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only ...
