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• Sea Life
  Fish
  Dolphins and Whales
  Marine Biology
  Animals
  Mammals
   
  

  Great White Sharks Scavenging on Dead Whales

  April 10, 2013 — Biologists have explored the behaviors of Great white sharks scavenging on dead whales in South Africa. The team documented as many as 40 different sharks scavenging on a carcass over the course of a ... > full story
• Seeds
  Oceanography
  Fisheries
  Fish
  Ecology Research
  Marine Biology
   
  

  Research Enables Fishermen to Harvest Lucrative Shellfish on Georges Bank

  April 10, 2013 — New scientific understanding of toxic algal blooms on Georges Bank, along with an at-sea and dockside testing protocol, has allowed fishermen to harvest ocean quahogs and surf clams in these offshore ... > full story
• Anthropology
  Cultures
  Early Climate
  Ancient Civilizations
  Early Humans
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Pottery Reveals Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers’ Taste for Fish

  April 10, 2013 — Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study which reports the earliest direct evidence for the use of ceramic ... > full story
• Nature
  Acid Rain
  Oceanography
  Global Warming
  Marine Biology
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Ocean Nutrients a Key Component of Future Change, Say Scientists

  April 10, 2013 — Variations in nutrient availability in the world’s oceans could be a vital component of future environmental change, according to a new review ... > full story
• Marine Biology
  Fish
  Oceanography
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  Sea Life
  Geochemistry
   
  

  Surf's Up: Turbulence Tells Sea Urchins to Settle Down

  April 9, 2013 — Tumbling in the waves as they hit a rocky shore tells purple sea urchin larvae it's time to settle down and look for a spot to grow into an adult, researchers at have ... > full story
• Fish
  Oceanography
  Global Warming
  Marine Biology
  Nature
  New Species
   
  

  Scientists Seek Sea Urchin's Secret to Surviving Ocean Acidification

  April 9, 2013 — Ocean research reveals rapid evolutionary adaptations to a changing climate. Genetic variation is the key to this ability to deal with higher ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  Climate
  Oceanography
  Geography
  Severe Weather
   

  Trouble in Penguin Paradise? Research Analyzes Antarctic Ice Flow

  April 9, 2013 — A student researcher has discovered that a good way to monitor the environmental health of Antarctica is to go with the flow -- the ice flow, that is. It's an important parameter to track because as ... > full story
• Oceanography
  Geography
  Global Warming
  Floods
  Climate
  Earth Science
   
  

  New Chart Shows the Entire Topography of the Antarctic Seafloor in Detail for the First Time

  April 9, 2013 — Reliable information on the depth and floor structure of the Southern Ocean has so far been available for only few coastal regions of the Antarctic. Scientists have for the first time succeeded in ... > full story
• Water
  Environmental Issues
  Sustainability
  Pollution
  Drought
  Drought Research
   
  

  Spring Rains Bring Life to Midwest Granaries but Foster Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone'

  April 9, 2013 — The most serious ongoing water pollution problem in the Gulf of Mexico originates not from oil rigs, as many people believe, but rainstorms and fields of corn and soybeans a thousand miles away in ... > full story
• Nature
  Evolutionary Biology
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Environmental Issues
  Biology
   
  

  Environmental Change Triggers Rapid Evolution

  April 9, 2013 — Environmental change can drive hard-wired evolutionary changes in animal species in a matter of generations. A new study overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over ... > full story

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