Crabs' camouflage tricks revealed
Crabs from a single species rely on different camouflage techniques depending on what habitat they live in, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2019
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News tagged with mudflat
Mangroves to mudflats and not back again
Over one-third of Earth's population lives with 100 km of a coastline and depend on the services that coastal ecosystems provide. With the intensity and impact of hurricanes expected to increase in the future, there is a ...
Ecology
Jul 16, 2018
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Living together in mud: New bivalve species dwelling on a sea cucumber discovered in Japan
Most bivalves live in sand or mud or attached to rock surface. However, a new bivalve species described from Japan lives on a sea cucumber.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2016
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Sentiment in New York City: A high resolution spatial and temporal view
Imagine having your finger on the pulse of an entire city, in real time. To see its heartbeat—changes in people opinions and moods—as a cascade of color, sweeping over the terrain. Researchers at the New England Complex ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 22, 2013
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Ecologists shed new light on effects of light pollution on wildlife
Coasts and estuaries are among the most rapidly developing areas on Earth. Night-time satellite images of the planet show that except Antarctica, continents are ringed with halos of brightly-lit human development. But coasts ...
Ecology
Nov 28, 2012
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Deaf dolphin rescued in La. is going to Miss.
(AP)—A deaf dolphin found stranded in March off the Louisiana coast is being taken to live among other dolphins at a facility in Mississippi.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2012
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Cassini finds Titan lake is like a Namibia mudflat
A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2012
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Robotic clam digs in mudflats
To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette (Peko) Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature's best diggers -- the razor clam.
Robotics
Nov 22, 2009
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