A new invading sea crab reaches the Ebro Delta (Spain)

Source: AlphaGalileo,org

The study has been published in 'Scientia Marina' Originally endemic to the Atlantic Coast of North America, over the past 30 years Dyspanopeus sayi has been involuntarily introduced in the UK, France, the Netherlands, the Black Sea and the Adriat ...
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How Do Octopuses Navigate?

Source: Scientific American

Getting around is complicated business. Every year, animals traverse miles of sky and sea (and land), chasing warmth or food or mates as the planet rotates and the seasons change. And with such precision! Some animals rely on visual landmarks ...
Full article at: Scientific American  More like this  1 day ago, 5:07pm CDT

Slime wave: Warning of slug population boom munching its way through gardens

Source: Mirror.co.uk

Gardeners and farmers are being warned to expect an epidemic of slippery saboteurs this summer. Experts say the slug population has trebled in some areas, meaning the pests could munch their way through record amounts ...
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Chimpanzees behave 'like people'

Source: BBC News

23 May 2012 Last updated at 10:15 By Michelle Warwicker BBC Nature Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people", researchers say. For years experts have debated whether great apes truly display human-like personalities - or i ...
Full article at: BBC News  More like this  3 days ago, 4:15am CDT

Decoding the beauty of pearls

Source: Oxford University Press Blog

How beautiful pearls are. Pearls emit a complex pattern of brightness, each with completely different color combination. They have attracted human beings, especially women, for long time, but simultaneously they have attracted biologis ...
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Research ship finds the world's oceans are 'plasticized'

Source: CNN

Expeditions to ocean gyres sometimes encounter 'ghost nets' - discarded fishing equipment that can tangle into a hazard for marine organisms. A rainbow runner caught in the Pacific with a gut full of plastic particles. "Our consumption doe ...
Full article at: CNN  More like this  4 days ago, 9:06pm CDT

Adrift in the modern world

Source: WAToday

Video will begin in 5 seconds. They used to care for nothing but nomadic seafaring, now the march of the modern world has trapped the Moken people in a life of the most extreme poverty. They live in stilted shacks on a mudflat above piles of oyster ...
Full article at: WAToday  More like this  4 days ago, 5:46pm CDT

Thailand clam programme making progress

Source: News24

2012-05-21 20:43 Prachuab Khiri Khan - Giant clams don't require much to survive, save a safe spot in the sea. The big molluscs need sunshine, clean salt water and algae for the photosynthesis that keeps them alive and in the process provides ...
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Scary name

Source: The Jobbing Doctor

The Jobbing Doctor is a GP working in a large industrialised conurbation outside of London. It is the online diary of an average doctor. Contact me on thejobbingdoctor@gmail.com Some conditions have scary names. I ...
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