Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...
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The Hideup Coike — a strange spiny bait resembling a sea urchin — is quickly becoming one of the hottest bass lures in the country. Learn how anglers are rigging and fishing this unique bait.
Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback ...
A remotely-operated minibot developed by Australian researchers can quickly clean up oil spills using a specialised filtering ...
Take a mama salmon, for example. It lays thousands of eggs at a time which the males fertilize thoroughly. The salmon packs each egg with more yolk compared to an urchin, that means more proteins, ...
Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change policy.
Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert is in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA, and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, ...
This isn’t a sea turtle versus coyote issue.' Sanibel's dilemma: Coyotes destroy huge numbers of nests. Should they be shot?
The cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction and extreme global warming prompted the emergence of modern marine ecosystems at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (or Mesozoic era), some 252 million ...