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Sawfish are spinning, and dying, in Florida waters as rescue effort begins

Endangered smalltooth sawfish, marine creatures virtually unchanged for millions of years, are exhibiting erratic spinning behavior and dying in unusual numbers in Florida waters. Federal and state wildlife agencies are beginning ...

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 27, 2024

Scientists discover endoparasitic marine tapeworm trapped in Cretaceous amber

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese ...

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 26, 2024

Researchers discover 125,000-year-old coastal ecosystem underneath spaceport in Kourou

In what is an intriguing mix of past and future, an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Bonn, has stumbled upon a surprising window to the past in Kourou in French Guiana. In the clay ...

Plants & Animals Mar 23, 2024

Orcas covered in scars left by 'cookiecutter sharks' may be new population, study says

A group of killer whales spotted hunting off the coast of California and Oregon over two decades may actually be their own unique population of animals, a new study says.

Plants & Animals Mar 22, 2024

Novel microsatellite tags hold promise for illuminating sea turtles' cryptic lost years

In the new article "Novel Microsatellite Tags Hold Promise for Illuminating the Lost Years in Four Sea Turtle Species" published in Animals, researchers tested new prototypes of microsatellite tags on 160 juvenile sea turtles ...

Plants & Animals Mar 19, 2024

Largest fish in Missouri's records caught in Lake of the Ozarks: A 164-pound 'dinosaur'

A fisherman on the Lake of the Ozarks brought ashore a world-record paddlefish Sunday that weighed more than 164 pounds—the biggest paddlefish ever caught and the largest fish of any kind in Missouri's record books.

Earth Sciences Mar 18, 2024

Banded iron formations: Oceans, algae and iron oxide

Iron ore is a big deal in Australia.

Plants & Animals Mar 18, 2024

'Atypical' gathering of 'rare' deep-sea predators spotted for first time in Panama

Deep underwater, a group of elusive predators gathered off the coast of Panama. The gathering was "atypical" and a first of its kind for the area.

Ecology Mar 16, 2024

Darwin's Galapagos island species, protected yet still at risk

Industrial fishing boats hover menacingly on the edges of Ecuador's Galapagos Marine Reserve, where schools of multicolored fish and hammerhead sharks frolic in the protected Pacific waters.

Plants & Animals Mar 15, 2024

Shark-bitten orcas in the Northeastern Pacific could be a new population of killer whale

UBC researchers believe a group of killer whales observed hunting marine mammals including sperm whales, as well as a sea turtle, in the open ocean off California and Oregon could be a new population.

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