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Archaea: Four cells turn seabed microbiology upside down

Single-celled archaea are invisible to the naked eye, and even when using a microscope, great care must be taken to observe them. An international team of…

The placodonts are fellow Europeans

However, when and where these highly specialized marine reptiles originated remained unclear until now. A 246-million-year-old skull of a juvenile placodont…

Wastewater injection spurred biggest earthquake yet, says study

A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep…

Endangered lemurs' genomes sequenced

For the first time, the complete genomes of three populations of aye-ayes–a type of lemur–have been sequenced and analyzed. The results of the…

Researchers Issue Forecast for 'Moderate' New England Red Tide in 2013

The “red tide” is caused by an alga Alexandrium fundyense, which produces a toxin that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Red tide typically…

New Study Analyzes the Risk to Endangered Whales from Ship Traffic off Southern California

Scientists from NOAA Fisheries, the Marine Mammal Commission and Cascadia Research Collective analyzed data collected over seven years by NOAA on marine mammal…

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