Scientists have shown for the first time that brittle stars use vision to guide them through vibrant coral reefs, thanks to a neat colour-changing trick.
Plants & Animals
Jan 2, 2020
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Sea lilies, despite their name, aren't plants. They're animals related to starfish and sea urchins, with long feathery arms resting atop a stalk that keeps them anchored to the ocean floor. Sea lilies have been around for ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 9, 2019
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As the world's climate continues to change, biologically diverse communities may be most capable of adapting to environmental challenges.
Ecology
Oct 16, 2019
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26
Sea urchins have five teeth, each held by a separate jaw in a circular arrangement at the center of their spiked, spherical bodies. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Matter on September 18 have discovered how the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2019
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107
They look like smears of pink bubblegum on the rocks off British Columbia's coast, indistinguishable from one another.
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2019
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Sea urchins have gotten a bad rap on the Pacific coast. The spiky sea creatures can mow down entire swaths of kelp forest, leaving behind rocky urchin barrens. An article in the New York Times went so far as to call them ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2019
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Researchers have discovered what gives human sperm the strength to succeed in the race to fertilise the egg.
Mathematics
Mar 19, 2019
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Something peculiar is happening in the azure waters off the rocky cliffs of Ischia, Italy. There, streams of gas-filled volcanic bubbles rising up to the surface are radically changing life around them by making seawater ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2018
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When British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he took notice of the giant kelp forests ringing the islands. He believed that if those forests were destroyed, a significant number of species ...
Ecology
Mar 14, 2018
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76
The delicately mannered dance between discerning eggs and vying sperm is more complicated than scientists once believed, and it may hold secrets about the evolution of new species.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2017
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