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New giant clam species offers window into human past

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created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers report the discovery of the first new living species of giant clam in two decades, according to a report to be published online on August 28th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. While fossil eviden ...





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400 Year Old Clam Found -- Oldest Animal Ever

400 Year Old Clam Found -- Oldest Animal Ever

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created Oct 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (86) | comments 0

A clam dredged from Icelandic waters had lived for 400 years - is this the longest-lived animal known to science?


Annual Tahoe Report Says Asian Clam Invasion Is Growing Fast

Annual Tahoe Report Says Asian Clam Invasion Is Growing Fast

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Released today, UC Davis' annual Lake Tahoe health report describes a spreading Asian clam population that could put sharp shells and rotting algae on the spectacular mountain lake's popular ...


New research to unravel how nutrients drive toxic 'brown tides' on East Coast

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NOAA has awarded Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $120,000 as part of an anticipated three-year, nearly $500,000 project, to determine how nitrogen and phosphorus promote brown tides on the East Coast. ...


Tentacles of venom: New study reveals all octopuses are venomous

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Once thought to be only the realm of the blue-ringed octopus, researchers have now shown that all octopuses and cuttlefish, and some squid are venomous. The work indicates that they all share a common, ancient venomous ancestor ...


Exotic mussels spreading in California

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created Dec 26, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Quagga mussels, an exotic species native to Ukraine that was first found in the Great Lakes 18 years ago, have been found in a fifth San Diego County reservoir.


Scientist finds coastal dead zones may benefit some species

Scientist finds coastal dead zones may benefit some species

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created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Coastal dead zones, an increasing concern to ecologists, the fishing industry and the public, may not be as devoid of life after all. A Brown scientist has found that dead zones do indeed support marine life, ...


Researchers take part in DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Researchers plan DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species ...


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Holes in Fossil Shells Show Effects of Competition and Evolution

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created Jan 04, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fossil records of the holes drilled in clam shells before and after a mass extinction two million years ago show patterns of predator-prey behavior indicating that although diversity recovered rapidly, the ...


New study demonstrates economic value of invasive species screening programs

New study demonstrates economic value of invasive species screening programs

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 19, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study by a team that includes David Lodge, a professor of biology and director of the Center for Aquatic Conservation at the University of Notre Dame, contends that screening programs for invasive species ...


Extinction runs in the family

Extinction runs in the family

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global calamities like the one that doomed most dinosaurs forever alter the varieties of life found on Earth, but new research shows that it doesn't take a catastrophe to end entire lineages. ...



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