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Novel Ocean-Crust Mechanism Could Affect World’s Carbon Budget

Now, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have observed ocean crust forming in an entirely unexpected way—one that may influence those…

LSU Oceanography Researcher Discovers Toxic Algae in Open Water

LSU’s Sibel Bargu, along with her former graduate student Ana Garcia, from the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences in LSU’s School of the Coast &…

New analysis explains formation of bulge on far side of moon

But a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that the highlands may be the result of tidal forces acting early in the…

How diving leatherback turtles regulate buoyancy

The animals probably plumb the depths to avoid predators, search for prey and avoid heat in the tropics. However it wasn't clear how these mammoth reptiles…

First cold water coral ecosystem discovered off the coast of Mauritania

Now the Senckenberg scientist reports from on board the Maria S. Merian research ship that the first cold water coral reef with living animals has been…

Sharks and wolves: Predator, prey interactions similar on land and in oceans

In each case, the major predators help control the populations of their prey, scientists said. But through what’s been called the “ecology of fear” they also…

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