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By Keeping the Beat, Sea Lion Sheds New Light on Animals’ Movements to Sound
April 1, 2013 — Move over dancing bears, Ronan the sea lion really does know how to boogie to the beat. A California sea lion who bobs her head in time with music has given scientists the first empirical evidence of ... > full story -
Nothing Fishy About It: Fish Oil Can Boost the Immune System
April 1, 2013 — Fish oil rich in DHA and EPA is widely believed to help prevent disease by reducing inflammation, but until now, scientists were not entirely sure about its immune enhancing effects. A new report ... > full story -
Streams Stressed by Pharmaceutical Pollution
April 1, 2013 — Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality. So reports a new paper that highlights the ecological cost of ... > full story -
Pirate Perch Probably Use Chemical Camouflage to Fool Prey
March 29, 2013 — Dark and sleek, it hides beneath the water waiting for prey. A researcher says the target will never know what hit them because they probably can’t smell the voracious pirate ... > full story -
Opposites Attract: How Cells and Cell Fragments Move in Electric Fields
March 28, 2013 — Like tiny crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields -- but in opposite directions, scientists have found. Their results could ... > full story -
New Fossil Species from a Fish-Eat-Fish World When Limbed Animals Evolved
March 27, 2013 — Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have ... > full story -
Dusting for Prints from a Fossil Fish to Understand Evolutionary Change
March 27, 2013 — In 370-million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Studying and describing this fish's ... > full story -
Lunar Cycle Determines Hunting Behavior of Nocturnal Gulls
March 27, 2013 — Zooplankton, small fish and squid spend hardly any time at the surface when there's a full moon. To protect themselves from their natural enemies, they hide deeper down in the water on bright nights, ... > full story -
Hope for Galapagos Wildlife Threatened by Marine Invaders
March 26, 2013 — Increasing tourism and the spread of marine invasive non-native species is threatening the unique plant and marine life around the Galapagos ... > full story -
Scientists Confirm First Two-Headed Bull Shark
March 25, 2013 — Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first-ever, two-headed bull ... > full story
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