Stealthy new deep-sea camera system may find new deep-sea creatures
...oluminescence to bring it to life. The instant any creature in the inky depths flashes its chemical signal, the camera will record the bioluminescent flash, and then send out a beam of red light, invisible to the animal, while simultaneously taking a digital image. Dr. Widder explains why she hopes to ca...Japanese shore crabs invade Penobscot Bay, Maine
...t Crescent Beach, McDonald saw a purple flash. The creature evaded McDonald's capture by ducking under a boulder. She called out to Seeley, who ran over and helped turn over the boulder. Indeed, the purple flash was a Japanese shore crab. Meet Hemigrapsus sanguineus (pronounced hemmy-grap-sis san-gwinn-ee-u...Molecular study questions Pfiesteria's link to coastal fish kills, threat to public health
...alth previously linked to the single-celled marine creature Pfiesteria piscicida may be a case of mistaken identity. Using new molecular detection methods, a study headed by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist found no indication that the Pfiesteria life cycle as originally described is u...Metal-eating algae, spartina eradication, horseshoe crabs
...his page to learn interesting facts about an ocean creature that pre-dates dinosaurs by over a 100 million years and is one of the oldest animals on Earth. Site includes links to research information, the annual Crab Census and various publications and includes a video....Scientists push back primate origins from 65 million to 85 million years ago
... would probably have been a nocturnal, tree-living creature weighing about 1-2 pounds, with grasping hands and...s may have looked like. The nocturnal, tree-living creature had grasping hands and feet, weighed about one-to-two pounds, and ate a mixed diet composed mainly o...UNC geologist, students to unveil 221 million-year-old top N.C. fossil
..., Brewer impaled the ankle bone of the prehistoric creature lying just below the surface of an ancient lake or...n Chambers, the late champion of N.C. fossils. The creature -- the major predator on the U.S. East Coast -- was 10 to 11 feet long and weighed about 1,500 pound......of the auditory cortex. Background This winged creature is unusual because it finds its prey by passively listening to prey-generated noise of short duration, while reserving high-frequency echolocation for obstacle avoidance. Echolocation is the method bats use to direct their flight and avoid solid obje...Crater makes an impact on three sessions at GSA
...., Nov. 8, Hynes Convention Center Room 200. Not a creature was stirring: USGS scientists have recently identified a zone of silt above the post-impact fallout that is devoid of signs of indigenous life. Wylie Poag points out that the heat from this impact must have instantly incinerated every living thing...Science Report: Super-crocodile crawls out of the African Cretaceous
...lable here . Just in time for Halloween, here's a creature from the past that could give you nightmares: a crocodile-like reptile, as long as a school bus and weighing about as much as a small whale, that may have snacked on small dinosaurs. In a 25 October report published online by Science at the Scien...Cancer-preventing gene protects against stress and extends life span in worms
...tists initially did not believe that such a simple creature contained this gene, which is so important in human medicine. That changed when lead author William B. Derry, a post-doctoral fellow on Rothman's research team, discovered that worms carry the gene. "Although it was initially hard to recognize, we ...Whale of a Puget Sound problem lures UW researchers
...t is not like a dog peering at you. It is another creature looking at you and trying to figure you out," said Hawks-Johnson. Her first such encounter came in 1991 near Australia's Great Barrier Reef with a bottlenose dolphin. "I was on a Zodiac and a dolphin popped its head up just one or two feet away and ......preys, a secretive (but apparently tasty) eel-like creature long confused with eels, but actually a cyclostome with some interesting and useful properties. Lampreys swim by rhythmic undulations of their bodies resulting from waves of contractions down their bodies occurring out of phase. This phase delay is i...Penn paleontologists locate a new genus of colossal dinosaur along an ancient coastline
... found by the Penn team suggests that the newfound creature is very close to the size of Argentinosaurus, currently the largest dinosaur known to man. Lead author Joshua B. Smith, a doctoral student in earth and environmental science at Penn and the discoverer of Paralititan, estimates that the giant four-le......00 and 800,000 years ago this bulbous-browed young creature lived, or at least died, somewhere in Central Java. Today, all that remains of her is the top of her head, and it's not talking. However, a new study of her brain structure suggests she could have done exactly that when she was alive. That conclu......que system of overlapping sensors that enables the creature to tell smells apart. The system seems well designed for the nerve-challenged worm. In mice and humans, each of millions of odor sensing nerves has only one type of odor detecting receptor, allowing the brain to distinguish between odors by tracking ......rpion, for instance. Here you have an invertebrate creature that withstands searing heat, doesn't eat much, moves omni-directionally, climbs with ease and alacrity over hills and rocks and prickly things, and defends itself in no uncertain terms. Building a scorpion based on biologically derived design princi...Saving Florida's gentle giants
...atee is nearby. The gates will not close until the creature passes by. During the first five weeks of operation, the system detected seven manatees and saved them. Historically, the only way to prevent manatee accidents at the Florida's gates had been to spot them visually - difficult to do in murky waters -...Chemical may deter starfish from devouring endangered coral reefs
...an, where extensive, costly efforts to control the creature have met with little success. Home to a variety of organisms that are a potential source of life-saving medicines, coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the sea. These rich ecosystems are rapidly disappearing. An estimated 27 percent ...Florida scientist finds eight new snails that may give water quality clues
... the attention of property owners that they have a creature -- a snail, a crayfish or a shrimp -- living in a spring in a creek in their backyard that is found nowhere else in the world, usually they get very protective and paternal about it," he said. Robert Hershler, a zoology curator at the Smithsonian...Researchers determine improved pattern for artificial light-harvesting molecule
...ich way was twigward or trunkward, and the hapless creature would run around lost until it died. In the same way, the researchers watched as their simulations showed that dendrimers lost the light they captured if they were too big. The light would simply dissipate long before it reached the center, where a d...