After tagging thousands of marine creatures with acoustical transmitters, researchers are now prepared to start using the recently-develop Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) network, which would enable them to eavesdrop on natural oceanic activity patterns.For the past few years, about 16,000 animals have been tagge... |
3 September 2010
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Experts have recently produced a new three-dimensional model of a marine animal that lived close to the moment when the first life forms appeared. In the August 4 issue of the esteemed scientific journal Biology Letters, scientists at the Imperial College London present the computer simulation of the blob-like creatu... |
4 August 2010
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For over 10 years, thousands of scientists have been involved in the most complex research effort ever undertaken to understand the world's waters. The goal of the international Census of Marine Life (CML) was to discover as many new marine species as possible until 2010. More than 2,700 experts worked towards t... |
3 August 2010
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While digging at a site in Morocco, researchers managed to discover a new series of fossils, which seem to play a very important role in clearing up some of the aspects of the current record of early marine lifeforms. Experts have always said that the dataset was not complete, but even so numerous black holes existed... |
13 May 2010
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Researchers discovered that the oceans hide a small number of brine-water lakes and rivers on their floor, especially in the Gulf of Mexico region. These in turn house their own variety of life, adapted to and relying on their saline features. Thinking of what lurks beneath the ocean waves, very few people, if a... |
26 September 2008
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In an attempt to address the downfall of the planetary ocean, as well as in order to provide a live learning place for scholars or for curious people, the Smithsonian museum will house the Sant Ocean Hall, a place where both living and fossil specimens from the depths of the oceans are exposed. The deepest leve... |
25 September 2008
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