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Red devil vampire crab
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (59+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Vampire crabs (Geosesarma species) are small, semi-terrestrial tropical crabs native to Southeast Asia. These Red Devil Vampire Crabs (Geosesarma hagen) are the subject of ongoing research at the University of Plymouth to establish their behaviours More on…...
How we can coexist with coyotes, and other lessons from Stanley Park
13+ hour, 14+ min ago (573+ words) image: A coyote at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, Vancouver view more Researchers are sharing lessons from the unprecedented Stanley Park coyote attacks from 2020 to 2021 to help people better coexist with urban wildlife. Coyotes are here to stay, say authors…...
Two bottlenose dolphins follow a midwater trawler in the waters of Veneto, Italy
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (54+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Dolphin Biology and Conservation Image owned and provided by Dolphin Biology and Conservation and must be credited to them. More on this News Release Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea seem to be heavily reliant on trawlers…...
A group of bottlenose dolphins follow a bottom otter trawler in the waters of Marche, Italy
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (57+ words) [IMAGE] Eurek Alert! Dolphin Biology and Conservation. Image owned and provided by Dolphin Biology and Conservation and must be credited to them. More on this News Release Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea seem to be heavily reliant on trawlers…...
Bottlenose dolphin in the Adriatic Sea
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (47+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Dolphin Biology and Conservation. Image owned and provided by Dolphin Biology and Conservation and must be credited to them. More on this News Release Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea seem to be heavily reliant on trawlers…...
Study reveals how giant trees in tropical forests transport water to their uppermost branches
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (628+ words) The study published in Science helps us understand the role of this little-studied type of vegetation in climate change. One percent of the tallest trees store more than half of the carbon in tropical forest ecosystems. image: The authors of…...
A large, live swimming crab entrapped inside the HDPE bottle
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (53+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! A large, live swimming crab, Portunus sanguinolentus entrapped inside the bottle. (Hajime Sato / Hiroshima University) Hajime Sato / Hiroshima University News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage related to…...
From waste bottles to life saving: Discarded plastic bottles help save dolphins from fishing nets
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (413+ words) Up-cycled glass bottle pingers and plastic bottle acoustic reflector trials. a) Workshops were held with fishermen in the targeted fisheries to introduce the project and secure participants. b)glass bottle pinger attached to a surface-set driftnet. c)Plastic bottle acoustic reflector attached to…...
Swimming crab trapped in plastic bottle survived two months on the ocean
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (302+ words) image: A large, live swimming crab, Portunus sanguinolentus entrapped inside the bottle. (Hajime Sato / Hiroshima University) view more Credit: Hajime Sato / Hiroshima University How did a large crab end up trapped inside a plastic bottle with an opening smaller than…...
Lower jaw and skull bone of a Syrian brown bear
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (75+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Lower jaw and skull bone of a Syrian brown bear Ursus arctos syriacus, a subspecies of the brown bear adapted to warmer climates, from the paleoanatomical collection of the SNSB. Credit must be given to the creator....