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New giant clam species offers window into human past
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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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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Philippines work to save giant clams
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Dec 27, 2007 |
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A new effort is under way in the Philippines to stem the declining population of the world's largest clams, called taklobos.
Deep in the ocean, a clam that acts like a plant
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Feb 21, 2007 |
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How does life survive in the black depths of the ocean? At the surface, sunlight allows green plants to "fix" carbon from the air to build their bodies. Around hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean live communities of giant ...
Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has found that a naturally occurring microorganism acts as a natural herbicide against giant salvinia.
Cleanup method uses activated carbons to anchor toxins to bottom of the bay
Nov 28, 2007 |
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Imagine a Brita filter big enough to clean up San Francisco Bay. Richard Luthy, chair of Stanford's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has a plan to clean polluted sediment at Hunters Point ...
Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world’s seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine creatures may actually become bigger and stronger, according to a new study.
Animal families with the most diversity also have widest range of size
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhere out there in the ocean, SpongeBob SquarePants has a teeny-tiny cousin and a humongous uncle.
Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.
Rediscovering the dragon's paradise lost
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and ar ...
Microsoft search engine makes steady progress
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, is making steady if unspectacular progress in its bid to wrest a bigger share of the lucrative US search and advertising market away from Google.
Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2008 |
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If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits.
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