Tiny marine creatures could help diagnose the health of Puget Sound
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington researchers are using tiny sea creatures called foraminifera to help diagnose the health of Puget Sound.
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington researchers are using tiny sea creatures called foraminifera to help diagnose the health of Puget Sound.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative experiment at the University of Leicester that involved studying rotting fish has helped to create a clearer picture of what our early ancestors would have looked like.
Archaeology
Oct 12, 2010
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What's unusual about this orange lobster? Its alive! Lobsters are usually a brownish-green colour when living and turn orange when they have been cooked. But a rare live reddish-orange coloured specimen has been spotted in ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique blob-like creature that lived in the ocean approximately 425 million years ago is revealed in a 3D computer model in research published today in the journal Biology Letters. The model is helping ...
Archaeology
Aug 4, 2010
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The Mediterranean Sea's exquisitely rich mix of flora and fauna is more threatened than marine life anywhere else on Earth, according to a landmark scientific survey released Monday.
Ecology
Aug 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An archaeologist studying a remote Pacific island, world famous for its strange stone statues, says outsiders - and not its ancestors - should be blamed for its historic demise hundreds of years ago.
Archaeology
Aug 2, 2010
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Scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute have used high-tech equipment to capture underwater creatures at depths not documented from before.
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age.
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2010
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An aggressive, invasive aquatic organism that is on the state's most dangerous species list has been discovered in both Winchester Bay and Coos Bay, and scientists say this "colonial tunicate" - Didemnum vexillum - has serious ...
Ecology
May 13, 2010
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Paleontologists have discovered a rich array of exceptionally preserved fossils of marine animals that lived between 480 million and 472 million years ago, during the early part of a period known as the Ordovician. The specimens ...
Archaeology
May 13, 2010
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