News tagged with aegean sea islands
A venomous tale: Vipers shape lizards' tail-shedding abilities
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues have answered a question that has puzzled biologists for more than a century: What is the main factor that determines a lizard's ability ...
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Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Greek fisherman must have been expecting a monster of a catch when he brought up his nets in the Aegean Sea last week. Instead, Greek authorities say his haul was a section of a 2,200-year-old bronze ...
Global warming threatens more than just coral
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Rising sea levels from global warming will threaten the livelihoods and homes of more than 200,000 people who live on coral atolls in coming generations.
Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Puffins to be fitted with 'sat nav' to monitor decline
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University are using GPS technology in an effort to understand a worrying decline in the numbers of Puffins. In the last five years the numbers of the sea birds has plummeted aroun ...
Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took thousands of years for ...
Small islands given short shrift in assembling archaeological record
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute pieces of land because ...
First comprehensive 'inventory' of life in Antarctica
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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The first comprehensive "inventory" of sea and land animals around a group of Antarctic islands reveals a region that is rich in biodiversity and has more species than the Galapagos. The study provides an important benchmark ...
Scientists uncover a dramatic rise in sea level and its broad ramifications
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet's sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now. Their findings were published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews Wednes ...
King crab family bigger than ever
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...
Scientists track green turtle’s 900km migration
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Exeter scientists are part of the first team to monitor a sea turtle's journey from the Turks and Caicos Islands. The adult female green turtle, named ‘Suzie’ by local fishermen, ...
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