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A water snake that predicts which way fish will turn when it attacks
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Forget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotizing their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. The small water snake has found a way to startle its prey so ...
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Magnetic Snakes Create Water Current
Sep 24, 2007 |
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Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory have found that magnetic particles suspended in water and subjected to an alternating magnetic field will form snake-shaped structures that can control the flow of ...
Outback snake fossil indicates lizard link
Feb 16, 2006 |
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Australian scientists say the fossil of a snake that lived 30 million years ago has provided yet another insight into reptilian evolution.
Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River
Nov 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened juvenile salmon and allow them to grow larger ...
How Snakes Survive Starvation
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Aug 27, 2007 |
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Starving snakes employ novel survival strategies not seen before in vertebrates, according to research conducted by a University of Arkansas biologist. These findings could be used in conservation strategies ...
Desert Snake Hears Mouse Footsteps with its Jaw
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Just a few decades ago, some scientists doubted that snakes could hear at all. Snakes lack an outer ear and external ear openings, making it difficult to understand how the reptiles receive acoustic vibrations.
Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators
Aug 06, 2009 |
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In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology.
Northwest salmon recovery plan may include breaching dams
Sep 16, 2009 |
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In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Washington state and Idaho includes studying ...
Calif. river system is nation's most endangered
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- California's two longest rivers have been named the country's most endangered waterways because of outdated water management and poor flood planning, according to an environmental advocacy group.
California water plan aims to save Puget Sound orcas
Jul 05, 2009 |
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A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ...
The robot that climbs in the pipe
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Industrial pipe systems are inaccessible and narrow. The pipes can be vertical and have junctions. Just as challenging, leakage points in the water system must be located, the condition of oil and gas pipelines must be checked ...
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