Large predators once hunted to near-extinction are showing up in unexpected places
Alligators on the beach. Killer whales in rivers. Mountain lions miles from the nearest mountain.
Alligators on the beach. Killer whales in rivers. Mountain lions miles from the nearest mountain.
Ecology
May 7, 2018
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Satellite imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining. Species-rich kelp forests ...
Ecology
Mar 5, 2021
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A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, "why the long face"? It's one of the oldest puns in the book, and there's no shortage of entertaining answers.
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2023
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Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plumet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game believe ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2023
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Sea otters are a hardy lot.
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2021
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In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2024
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Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers strengthen the link between sea otters and long-term health of California kelp forests in a new study released today. The paper, published in the journal PLOS Climate, finds that sea otter ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2024
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Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about wolf hunting behavior.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2023
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New research suggests that the feeding strategy of Kolponomos, an enigmatic shell-crushing marine predator that lived about 20 million years ago, was strangely similar to a very different kind of carnivore: the saber-toothed ...
Archaeology
Mar 2, 2016
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Marine mammals—animals including whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, sea otters, dugongs and manatees—are threatened by an array of human activities. Species such as the North Atlantic right whale, Rice's whale and Vaquita ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2023
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