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This photo shows a mud shrimp infested with the parasitic isopod

Invasive Parasite Spreading Among West Coast Estuaries

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California - with the ...





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Isopod Replaces Fish's Tongue

Isopod Replaces Fish's Tongue

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An isopod that replaces a fish's tongue has been discovered for the first time in the Channel Islands in Europe. The marine isopod, described by its finder as hideous and vicious, is a rare ...


Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs

Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs

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created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia -- waters long familiar ...



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