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Seals protect brain, conserve oxygen by turning off shivering response on icy dives

The researchers presented the study at The American Physiological Society's conference “Comparative Physiology 2006: Integrating Diversity,” in Virginia Beach,…

Ice Age North Atlantic temperatures, tropical oceans linked

Sudden shifts in temperature over Greenland and tropical rainfall patterns during the last ice age have been linked for the first time to rapid changes in the…

Researchers link Ice Age climate-change records to ocean salinity

Sudden decreases in temperature over Greenland and tropical rainfall patterns during the last Ice Age have been linked for the first time to rapid changes in…

Fossils pinpoint tropics as Earth's most fruitful biodiversity spawning ground

A team of scientists has completed a study that explains why the tropics are so much richer in biodiversity than higher latitudes. And they say that their work…

Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway Antarctica

A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the…

Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year

“The shark fin trade is notoriously secretive. But we were able tap into fin auction records and convert from fin sizes and weights to whole shark equivalents…

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