Experts raise serious concerns about the expansion of industrial fish farming. A study appearing in the December 14 issue of the journal Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward extinction. The results show that the affected pink salmon populations [...]
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Freed Baby Shark Heads for the Border
Shark enthusiasts are invited to keep track of a young white shark returned to the wild by the Monterey Bay Aquarium six weeks ago. So far, it has traveled past the southern tip of Baja California and is heading toward waters off the Mexican mainland, no passport required.
The shark’s whereabouts are monitored by the electronic [...]
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Ants Self-Organize Like Sand on Coffee Plants Naturally
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New study shows that dogs can classify color photographs and transfer knowledge in computer tests. Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories [...]
The discovery of a giant fossilised claw.- from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about eight foot(two and a half meters) long, much taller than the average man.
This find, from rocks 390 million years old, suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the past [...]
Whales were the economic drivers of the 1850s. So important was this resource that the founder of the U.S. Oceanographic Office, Matthew Fontaine Maury, created a map showing the worldwide distribution of sperm and right whales in 1851.
“Whale oil then was like petroleum is today,” says Christopher Baruth. “This is a graphic device that showed [...]
Animal conservationists in Manchester are turning to physics to investigate whether global warming is responsible for killing sun-loving South American tree frogs.
In a unique collaborative project, researchers in The Photon Science Institute (PSI) at The University of Manchester have joined forces with The Manchester Museum, which boasts an amazing collection of colorful tree frogs.
Physicist Dr [...]
A new branch has been found on the dinosaur family tree, dating back 110 million years. It’s a plant eater known as Nigersaurus taqueti, described by its finders as having “a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones.”
Found in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul [...]
There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This summer, while completing the second phase of a two-year broad scientific survey of the waters around the Aleutian Islands, scientists have discovered what may be three new marine organisms. This [...]
You’ve heard of leaping lizards, but what about flying lemurs? Movie goers learned to love lemurs thanks to the popular films Madagascar (Pixar) and Dinosaur (Disney). And now, there’s more to love about them.
It seems the furry fellows are just one notch below the Primate group, to which humans belong. That’s according to a new [...]