Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.
Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo has spent a lifetime working with the endangered creatures, which offer a window ...
These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish, where nitrogen can be ... (One study in Iceland suggests that fin whales produce more than 250 gallons of urine per ...
"The movement of nitrogen and other nutrients can be important to the growth of phytoplankton, or microscopic algae, and provide food for sharks and other fish and many invertebrates ... One study in ...
Researchers from the Skoltech Laboratory for Metagenome Analysis, which is led by Assistant Professor Artem Isaev, and their colleagues from the United Kingdom have studied the BREX methyltransferase ...
A cave diver's paradise, the Bahamas is home to an extensive network of life-sustaining underwater caverns chock-full of ...
New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, supporting the health of tropical ecosystems and fish. UC Santa Cruz professors ...
The winning photographs highlight the diversity of animal and plant life in Britain as well as the often hidden behaviors of ...
In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to warm, nutrient-poor breeding areas through their urine, placentas, skin, and ...
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig (a machine that drills holes into the earth ... fish might experience impacted growth, enlarged livers, fin ...
Advertisement These men and women signed up for a life where numbers define them ... Eventually, the flying Fin came back down to earth and Paul survived, even though he felt like he had been ...
The fetus, measuring around 50 centimeters, was positioned in a way that indicates it was in the final stages of prenatal ...