What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common toggle caption Ruiqi Li/Dakota McCoy Healthy corals are colorful and full of life. "These strange little clams are a little bit tougher than corals," says McCoy, "even though they host the same type of algae inside their cells that corals do." Sponsor Message An instrument called a spectrophotometer, "can …
Scientists unveil decades-long research about the deep-diving 'mystery mollusc' Enlarge this image toggle caption 2002 MBARI 2002 MBARI In early 2000, the scientists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were sitting in the control room for their deep-diving remotely operated vehicle when they saw a bizarre creature swimming in the midnight zone of the ocean. This was the first time …
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Populations of marine molluscs have collapsed in recent decades in parts of the eastern Mediterranean as warming waters have made conditions unsuitable for native species, new research showed Wednesday. Paolo Albano, from the University of Vienna’s Department of Paleontology, initially set out to contrast populations of local and non-native species along the Israeli shelf in the eastern Mediterranean. “However, after …
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