marine life

New species of marine life discovered

harminka — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:41:41 -0500

Two tiny worms much smaller than a rice grain and a strange crustacean that has no eyes and poisonous fangs are among several new species of marine life discovered in an underwater cave by a Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher, who has had one of the new species named after him.

Did Another Montauk Monster Carcass Appear?

Michael Santo — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:27:30 -0500

The "Montauk Monster" was an unidentified creature that allegedly washed ashore dead on a beach near the Montauk, New York business district in July 2008. New reports are that another, similar carcass has washed ashore, and now conspiracy theorists are pointing the finger at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

Bush to establish world's largest marine protection area

Armen Hareyan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:48:33 -0600

US President George W Bush is to announce the creation of the world's largest marine protection area spanning some 505,000 square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman said.

Major progress towards historic Census of Marine Life in 2010

harminka — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:52:20 -0600

The 2,000-strong community of Census of Marine Life scientists from 82 nations today announced astonishing examples of recent new finds from the world’s ocean depths.

Fertilizers are growing threat to sea life

harminka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:41:39 -0500

New study on landscape around Chesapeake Bay says imbalance in nitrogen cycle is damaging water quality and fish populations

Coastal dead zones may benefit some species

harminka — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:41:45 -0500

A Brown ecologist has found that coastal “dead zones” may not be so dead after all. In a paper published this month in the journal Ecology, Andrew Altieri has found that the commercially valuable quahog clam thrives in hypoxic waters in Narragansett Bay – partly because the clam’s predators flee the low-oxygen areas.

More acidic ocean could spell trouble for marine life's earliest stages

harminka — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:30:51 -0500

Increasingly acidic conditions in the ocean—brought on as a direct result of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere—could spell trouble for the earliest stages of marine life, according to a new report in the August 5th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Montauk Monster, Is It Reality?

Armen Hareyan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:32:29 -0500

Montauk, a town heavily featured in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the town where Kumail proposed to me, apparently has a dead monster on its hands. Picture after the jump, and get ready, it’s a bit intense.

New reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil

harminka — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:05:19 -0500

Scientists announced the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state.

Studying climate effects on young fish

harminka — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:17:47 -0500

From the surface, the two areas of ocean off the coasts of northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York look the same. But to NOAA scientists, the four-square-mile patches could not be more different as they view real-time underwater images and environmental data to try to figure out what lives there and how climate change is affecting marine life, especially very young fish.

Sharks face extinction in world's oceans

Armen Hareyan — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:46:37 -0500

Seventy Six percent of oceanic shark and ray species caught in oceans for their valuable fins and meat, face the threat of extinction, the IUCN Shark Specialist Group (SSG) said on Friday.

Researchers confirm dead zone off Texas coast since 1985

harminka — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:43:02 -0500

Researchers at Texas A&M University have confirmed for the first time that a “dead zone” has existed off the Texas coast for at least the past 23 years and will likely remain there, causing potential harmful effects to marine life in the area.