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BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc
A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residenc...
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Read moreScientists ‘Unlock’ Mystery of Creating Cultured Pearls from the Queen Conch
With less than two years of research and experimentation, Drs. Héctor Acosta-Salmón and Megan Davis, co-inventors, have produced more than 200 cultured pearls using the techniques they developed. Prio...
Life Sciences | Read moreRobot fish could monitor water quality
Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They're developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater env...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreFSU, Duke Partner to Study Impact of Gulf’s ‘Dead Zone’ on Shrimp Fishery
Florida State will serve as the lead institution for the collaborative project, which is funded by a four-year, $702,969 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Norther...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreIn Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Could Native Prairie Plants Be the Answer
In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal BioScience, David Flaspohler, Joseph Fargione and colleagues analyze the impacts on wildlife of the burgeoning conversion of grasslands to corn ...
Life Sciences | Read moreWidespread Occurrence of Intersex Bass Found in U.S. Rivers
Of the 16 fish species researchers examined from 1995 to 2004, the condition was most common by far in smallmouth and largemouth bass: a third of all male smallmouth bass and a fifth of all male large...
Life Sciences | Read moreRiver flow and temperature limit trout numbers
His method has been to monitor population numbers in relation to river flow in March, when the juvenile fish emerge. He concludes that environmental conditions change each year and modify river flow, ...
Life Sciences | Read morePNNL Awarded $6.8 Million for Marine, River Power Studies
The bulk of the funding - $3.45 million, or $1.15 million per year - allows PNNL to lead a project that will examine the environmental impacts of marine and hydrokinetic power. Marine power includes p...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreTime to tap climate-change-combating potential of the world's ecosystems
Investing in restoration and maintenance of the Earth's multi-trillion dollar ecosystems - from forests and mangroves to wetlands and river basins - can have a key role in countering climate chan...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreShifting baselines confound river restoration
Steep reductions in the abundance of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic fauna in recent centuries are not restricted to animals that live in the sea: historical records show that species in rivers and...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreNASA researcher nets first measure of Africa's coastal forests
That's because swampy mangrove forests – essential breeding grounds for fish and shellfish in these countries – are being destroyed by worsening pollution, encroaching real estate development, an...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreHundreds of New Species Discovered in Fragile Eastern Himalayas
Over 350 new species including the world’s second smallest deer, a “flying frog” and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threate...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreUBC researchers find first-ever 'wanderlust gene' in tiny bony fish
Measuring three to 10 centimetres, stickleback fish originated in the ocean but began populating freshwater lakes and streams following the last ice age. Over the past 15,000 years, freshwater stickle...
Life Sciences | Read moreDouglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
Analyzed by themselves, the rings from a single tree or mollusk may sometimes reflect conditions that are either favorable or unfavorable for growth. When scientists look at numerous individuals of th...
Earth Sciences | Read moreFreshwater fish at the top of the food chain evolve more slowly
For avid fishermen and anglers, the largemouth bass is a favorite freshwater fish with an appetite for minnows. A new study finds that once they evolved to eat other fish, largemouth bass and ...
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