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Invasive mussels imperil western water system
Jul 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two years after an invasive mussel was first discovered at Lake Mead, the population has firmly established itself and gone on a breeding binge, with numbers soaring into the trillions.
Mollusks taste memories to build shells (w/Video)
Apr 02, 2009 |
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University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer.
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Rising acidity levels could trigger shellfish revenue declines, job losses
Jun 17, 2009 |
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hanges in ocean chemistry -- a consequence of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human industrial activity — could cause U.S. shellfish revenues to drop significantly in the next 50 years, according ...
Fed rules urged to protect black abalone
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Jan 14, 2008 |
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A U.S. federal agency has proposed listing black abalone -- a marine mollusk sought by fishermen -- as an endangered species.
Scientists: New phylum sheds light on ancestor of animals, humans
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Nov 02, 2006 |
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Genetic analysis of an obscure, worm-like creature retrieved from the depths of the North Atlantic has led to the discovery of a new phylum, a rare event in an era when most organisms have already been grouped into major ...
Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch
Nov 04, 2009 |
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For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...
Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world's oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago. The fossil record contains few examples of animals with backbones for ...
Why one way of learning is better than another
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) of McGill University reveals that different patterns of training and learning lead to different types of memory formation. The significance of ...
Analysis finds strong match between molecular, fossil data in evolutionary studies
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 28, 2009 |
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During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance, ...
Ocean acidification: impact on key organisms of oceanic fauna
Sep 15, 2009 |
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In addition to global warming, carbon dioxide emissions cause another, less well-known but equally serious and worrying phenomenon: ocean acidification. Researchers in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie ...
Chloride In Big Darby Creek Has Increased Three-Fold In Past 40 Years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chloride levels in central Ohio’s Big Darby Creek were three times higher in 2007 than the levels recorded in the late 1960s, and have more than doubled since 1992, according to an analysis conducted at Ohio ...
Researcher describes new type of strong, lightweight metallic material
Mar 07, 2005 |
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A new type of laminate performed spectacularly in depth-of-penetration ballistics tests, but its greatest potential may derive from its ability to be tailored to meet specific engineering requirements An engineering professor ...
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