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Venomous Sea Snakes Play Heads Or Tails With Their Predators
August 6, 2009 — A new discovery reveals how venomous sea snakes deceive their predators into believing they have two ... > full story -
Shipwrecks Wrecking Coral Reefs? A Case Study At Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
August 6, 2009 — For the first time, researchers have definitively shown that shipwrecks and other man-made structures increase the potential for large invasions of unwanted species into coral reefs, even ... > full story -
First-Ever 'Wanderlust Gene' Found In Tiny Bony Fish
August 5, 2009 — A gene previously associated with physical traits is also dictating behavior in a tiny fish widely regarded as a living model of Darwin's natural selection theory, according to a new ... > full story -
Neuropathic Pain: The Sea Provides A New Hope Of Relief
August 5, 2009 — A compound initially isolated from a soft coral collected at Green Island off Taiwan, could lead scientists to develop a new set of treatments for neuropathic pain -- chronic pain that sometimes ... > full story -
Sick Fish May Get Sicker Due To Climate Change And Other Stresses
August 5, 2009 — Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with climate change and other stresses on aquatic ... > full story -
Coral Reefs Face Increasing Difficulties Recovering From Storm Damage
August 4, 2009 — As global warming whips up more powerful and frequent hurricanes and storms, the world's coral reefs face increased disruption to their ability to breed and recover from damage. "We have found clear ... > full story -
Love Songs Of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sings With 'More Than One Voice'
August 3, 2009 — It is now generally accepted that the bowhead whale is the longest lived mammal on the planet, with a lifespan of over 200 years. But that it can sing with "more than one voice" and that it changes ... > full story -
Consider The Oyster (and Ocean Farming)
August 3, 2009 — There are cynics who see only catastrophic answers to Earth's population explosion: War and pestilence come to mind. Then there are those who look a little deeper. Not even two feet deep, to be ... > full story -
Threats To California's Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary
August 3, 2009 — A new report on the health of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary indicates that the overall condition of the sanctuary's marine life and habitats is fair to good, but identifies several emerging ... > full story -
Human Language And Dolphin Movement Patterns Show Similarities In Brevity
August 3, 2009 — Two researchers have shown for the first time that the law of brevity in human language, according to which the most frequently-used words tend to be the shortest, also extends to other animal ... > full story -
Energetic Bottleneck Factors In Catastrophic Winter Seabird Losses
August 1, 2009 — Every winter, thousands of seabirds are washed up on shore having perished in unexplained "winter wrecks." To find out why so many seabirds die, researchers calculated the energy requirements of auks ... > full story -
New Hope For Fisheries: Overfishing Reduced In Several Regions Around The World
July 31, 2009 — A groundbreaking assessment of marine fisheries and ecosystems reveals that overfishing has been reduced in several regions around the world, resulting in some stock recovery. Importantly, the work ... > full story
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