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Aliénor Hammer4th December 2020 Sustainability: a quick introduction These days, sustainability is all the rage. As someone that’s always been...
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This week’s image is of the swashbuckling ‘Gladiator of the Sea’ – the swordfish, sometimes known as a broadbill. But...
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Eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to breed “Eels are sending us a really major signal that we’re harming our...
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Glofish - zebrafish carrying a colour gene from the sea anemone Scientists claim they can now anticipate how species will...
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Extant hominids, which include apes and humans come from a plant eating ancestry. Early hominids lived in a woodland-savannah environment...
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95% of the stony coral in the oceans will be gone within less than 50 years unless we act now....
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From the tiniest microbe to the largest whale, all species on earth are constantly evolving, albeit some more quickly than...
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Hello all and welcome to the inauguration of Sea Snacks, my blog about marine biology and the science of the...
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Dead fish after an overflow event. Image: Thames Anglers Conservancy. There once was a time when the Thames was teeming...
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The Summer 2012 issue of I, Science took a look at perception, discussing senses and their limitations. However, one sense...
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Andrew Purcell There can be few species on Earth about which more myths exist than piranhas. Piranhas have an...
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Andrew Purcell Coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities including...
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Andrew Purcell Some shocking statistics about the world’s rivers: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of...
