News tagged with northern shrimp
Timing is Everything for Northern Shrimp Populations in the North Atlantic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even for Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life. The tiny creatures, eaten in shrimp rolls and shrimp salad, occupy ...
May 07, 2009 |
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Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni: Fossil hermit crab named after Michael Jackson
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kent State University researcher was part of an international team of paleontologists that recently made a significant discovery in northern Spain. The group discovered a new family, genus ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Scientists examine toxicity of medicinal plants in Peru
Many developing countries rely on traditional medicine as an accessible and affordable treatment option for human maladies. However, until now, scientific data has not existed to evaluate the potential toxicity of medicinal ...
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Severe low temperatures devastate coral reefs in Florida Keys
Athens, Ga. – Increased seawater temperatures are known to be a leading cause of the decline of coral reefs all over the world. Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that extreme low ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Prodigal plankton species makes first known migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole
Some 800,000 years ago -- about the time early human tribes were learning to make fire – a tiny species of plankton called Neodenticula seminae went extinct in the North Atlantic.
Jun 26, 2011 |
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Forecast predicts biggest Gulf dead zone ever
Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history - about the size of Lake Erie - because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley.
Jun 15, 2011 |
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For some crustaceans in polluted waters, it could be worse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine that you’re a grass shrimp. Now, imagine that you’re a rational grass shrimp, and that you have a choice of living in an environment with relatively high levels of dioxin, ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Scientists discover the largest assembly of whale sharks ever recorded
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are often thought to be solitary behemoths that live and feed in the open ocean. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and colleagues, however, have found that this is not ...
May 25, 2011 |
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Endeavour launch brings tourists, traffic to Fla.
(AP) -- Florida Space Coast hotels are sold out, residents are renting bedrooms and restaurants are doubling food supplies as thousands of tourists arriving for Friday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Advanced Light Source finds big surprise in Paleozoic scorpion fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s not quite Jurassic Park, but who wants Paleozoic scorpions scurrying around anyway? Scientists used a powerful microscope at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...
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Mar 01, 2011 |
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US not ready for Arctic oil drilling, say officials
The United States is ill-equipped to deal with a major oil catastrophe in Alaska, the Coast Guard admiral who led the US response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and others have warned.
Feb 07, 2011 |
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