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• Briny With A Rich Seafood Essence

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 591
  My google news alert for "squid" frequently pops up recipes and restaurant reviews, most of which I dismiss out of hand. But a critical mass of alerts mentioning squid ink pasta, risotto, and other dishes finally drove me to a more thorough investigation. read more
  1 day ago

• Whales Are Not Only Majestic But Also Intelligent

  
  Pen and Brain Online — Authority: 130
  All whales especially the Baleen migrates ever year and this is done as a group. These creatures head off from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding grounds. When these mammals migrate in groups the group is known as a pod. These mammals have very strong social bonds especially between a mother and her calf. ...
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• Video: Giant jellyfish invade Japanese waters

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Swarms of giant jellyfish are threatening Japans fishing industry as the huge seaborne creatures are ruining fishermens nets and catches
  2 days ago

• Science & Soul: I’m Back!

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 105
  Sorry about the long wait, but work comes first.  Anyway, I am getting back in the swing of things for a little while. Science News in Brief The Large Haldron Collider has resumed operation and set a new world record for energy.  Its particle beams were accelerated at over one trillion volts.  This was just a ...
  3 days ago

• Bugs

  
  PlanetBye — Authority: 127
  Bugs Poor Ladybugs have to carry wasp larvae with them. But, they get to survive after the wasp is "processes". :-)
  4 days ago

• Why the hammerhead shark got its hammer

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 130
  Why do hammerhead sharks have, well, hammer-shaped heads? Well, hammerhead sharks have had their first eye examination, and it has found that sharks with wider heads have better binocular vision ; using two eyes at once, like humans. Binocular vision is better to track fast-moving prey like squid with far ...
  6 days ago

• Slow-mo Eagle Owl

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 130
  Slow motion videos are cool! And this video of the Eagle Owl is no exception:
  6 days ago

• Hammerhead sharks see the world in glorious 3D, sight tests reveal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The wing-like heads of hammerhead sharks with their widely spaced eyes give the creatures excellent binocular vision, scientists have found The bizarre appearance of hammerhead sharks has led generations of marine biologists to ponder the same question: why the wide face? Part of the answer may now be at hand. Eye ...
  1 week ago

• In Defense Of Dissection

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 591
  An opinion piece in the Boston Herald criticizes the squid dissection component of an overnight family education event at the New England Aquarium: The barbaric highlight of the night was when the children were instructed to use the squid’s pseudo-spine to puncture its ink sac and then write their names on the ...
  1 week ago

• Zoology

  
  Genetologic Research — Authority: 114
  \ Zoology of Genetology \ ZG \ 1 Third quire of Genetology, November 2009 Size: 100 x 70 cm (poster) 50 x 70 cm (folded) Published by Galerie Kunst-Zicht (UGent) Text: Alan Weisman Design: Raf Vancampenhoudt Editor: Willem Vanden Eynde
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• UK ACHIEVES MORE THAN 10% GROWTH

  
  Michael Greenwell — Authority: 115
  UK Ministers were delighted at the recent news that the UK has achieved 10% growth in one year. “We have always talked about the importance of growth for our country. Growth is the ultimate good and must override all other concerns” said government spokesman Donald Harebrain. Opposition spokesman Theobald ...
  1 week ago

• In pictures: Bizarre deep-sea creatures revealed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Thousands of strange animals that exist in eternal darkness deep in the oceans have been catalogued for the first time
  1 week ago

• Video: New deep sea marine creatures revealed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Thousands of newly discovered creatures brought to light by a census of marine life survey, a 10-year study by thousands of scientists from more than 32 countries
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• Scientists Discover New Species Of Chameleon In Tanzania--Kinyongia Magomberae

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 591
  While surveying monkeys in the Magombera Forest in Tanzania, environmental scientists this week unexpectedly discovered a new species of chameleon called Kinyongia magomberae, or the Magombera chameleon. The researchers distinguished the new specimen by collecting, testing and comparing it to two others found in ...
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• Ant fungus gardens fix atmospheric nitrogen

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 424
  Sericomyrmex ants in a laboratory fungus garden The textbook version of the leafcutter ant and its fungus is a simple story: attine ants cultivate an edible fungus in their nests.  They are obligate farmers, eating only the fungus, and the fungus is a specialized cultivar found only in ant nests. It’s a nice ...
  1 week ago

• Dolphin killed by poachers in Patna

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Patna, Nov 22 (IANS) A Gangetic dolphin, an endangered species, was killed by poachers on the banks of the river here, an official said Sunday.The official said the 1.6 metre long national aquatic animal is suspected to have been killed by poachers Saturday.Bihar’s chief Wildlife Warden B.A. Khan has ordered the ...
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• ACS Genes Discovery May Make Valuable Plants Survive In Difficult Terrain

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 591
  According to a recent GENETICS study, a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethylene and since this gas affects many aspects of plant development, it could lay the foundation for future genetic manipulation that could make plants disease ...
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• Sex And Food In The Giant Squid

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 591
  A nifty news story about students in a Florida classroom watching a giant squid dissected in Melbourne, Australia, led me to hunt down an article about the dissection itself. Was it really a giant squid, I wondered wearily, or merely a very large squid? It was indeed a true giant squid! And the article is quite ...
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• Biodiversity loss is Earths immense and hidden tragedy, Darwins natural heir warns

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Problem of biodiversity loss has been eased off centre stage by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as Darwins natural heir The diversity of life on Earth is undergoing an "immense and hidden" tragedy that requires the scale of global response now being deployed to ...
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• Flying foxes get sanctuary in Jharkhand (Feature with images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  By Madhusree ChatterjeeJamshedpur, Nov 20 (IANS) Every evening, as dusk gathers on the smoking chimneys of this iron and steel township, an army of giant vampires creeps out of lairs on a small island in the middle of a lake.Welcome to the little known Jubilee Lake Mega (giant) Bat sanctuary - the state’s lone urban ...
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