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New Scientist | Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals New Scientist Berwald's exposé of the biology beneath the curved and tentacled dome is combined with a personal odyssey as, after a decade of mothering, she returns to marine science to study jellyfish swarms in the ecologically askew regions of the world's oceans. |
EurekAlert (press release) | DNA tests on albatross poo reveal secret diet of top predator EurekAlert (press release) DNA analysis of 1460 scats from breeding sites around the Southern Ocean has shown that the diet of black-browed albatrosses contains a much higher proportion of jellyfish than previously thought. The finding, in a study led by IMAS researcher Julie ... |
The use of jellyfish blooms as solutions for producing new products Phys.Org While some people might find these slimy creatures at the beach very exciting, a number of species are poisonous; some tropical species are even among the ... |
ScienceBlog.com (blog) | Scientists discover common sea nettle jellyfish is actually two distinct species ScienceBlog.com (blog) Now, a new paper published in the journal PeerJ reveals that the sea nettle jellyfish in the Chesapeake Bay are actually a different, distantly related species from sea nettles found in the open ocean. For the last 175 years, scientists have assumed ... |
Phys.Org | Scientists uncover a centuries-old case of mistaken identity in the ... Phys.Org Jellyfish sting swimmers, clog fishing nets, and in high numbers can close beaches. But despite their nuisance to humans, they play an important role in the ... |
Warning To Beachgoers: World's Deadliest Jellyfish Found In ... malaysiandigest.com Penang beachgoers now need to be careful as one of the world's most poisonous creatures, the deadly box jellyfish, which are cubed-shaped, have recently ... |
HowStuffWorks | Jellyfish Don't Have Brains, But They Still Sleep HowStuffWorks The discovery that jellyfish sleep could be an important next step in sleep research for all types of species. While the basis and function of sleep is still a mystery to scientists, it's often associated with the brain because sleep has a profound ... |
New York Times | Who's Eating Jellyfish? Penguins, That's Who New York Times In a paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, however, an international consortium of scientists has reported that an assortment of penguin species frequently attack jellies as food, a behavior that had not been documented before. |
Science News | To test sleep, researchers don't let sleeping jellyfish lie Science News Some species of upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea) meet all of the criteria for entering a “sleeplike state,” a group of Caltech researchers report September 21 in Current Biology. The jellyfish seem groggy after a sleepless night and quickly waken from ... |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Scientists just discovered the first brainless animal that sleeps ... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Cassiopea jellyfish spends most of its life resting upside down on underwater surfaces. This Animal Sleeps But Has No Brain Jellyfish may be capable of sleep after all, study reports Jellyfish found to be first animals without brains that sleep |
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