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Fishing trade helps Africa

...alue species, such as tuna, hake, sole, shellfish, octopus and squid, which would have been destined for luxury urban markets anyway, rather than being an important part of the diets of the poor and food-insecure." Fish are the most traded of all agricultural commodities and, valued at $71 billion per year...

Midgets and giants in the deep sea

... bivalves (such as clams) and cephalopods (such as octopus and squid). He also hopes that other marine biologists will be interested enough to perform similar studies on other deep-sea animals. ...

How the octopus forms an elbow

The octopus arm is extremely flexible. Thanks to this flexibil...ually infinite number of "degrees of freedom"--the octopus is able to generate a vast repertoire of movements that is unmatched by the human arm. Nonetheless, ...

Survey discovers potential threat to Maine's fishing

...uch as chitons, clams, mussels, snails, sea slugs, octopus and squid) collection....

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...and benthic bristle worms, and the first squid and octopus ever found in the area. Scientists were also intrigued to discover among other things two species of sand flea-like crustaceans (amphipods) which, though familiar, had never before been found in an ice environment. Animal density far higher tha...

Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report

Berkeley -- Two species of tropical octopus have learned a neat trick to avoid predators - the...the ground. In Indonesia, for example, the coconut octopus looks like a coconut tiptoeing along the ocean bottom, six of its arms wrapped tightly around its bo...

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(Date:5/16/2013)... For decades, scientists have used ancient shorelines to predict the ... Markings of a high shoreline from three million years ago, ... period were thought to be evidence of a high ... This assumption has led many scientists to think that if ... they may do just the same in our modern, progressively ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... 16, 2013 The relationship between the heritable ... not been clear. Schizophrenia is commonly associated with ... are clues that reduced IQ may be linked ... reduced cognitive ability may precede the onset of ... in healthy relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... fossils that are about 23 million years old ... the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich ... led by paleontologist Professor Bettina Reichenbacher from the ... of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) ... analysis of fish fossils which they assign to ...
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