Science news articles about 'sea creature'The sea creature giving Britain's olympic sailing squad a boost
Britain's sailing squad has an extra weapon going into the Olympics - an extract from a sea creature which could help keep them ready to race.Sea creature leaves trail of evolutionary clues
... Biologists exploring the ocean floor for new sea creatures have stumbled upon one of the largest known single-celled creatures, a bland, grape-sized distant cousin of the ... 'Mind-Blowing' New Creature Discovered
Mysterious sea creatures grow into simple slug-like cell masses. These are no sea monkeys.Genome sequence deepens mystery of inconspicuous sea creature
... , a mysterious life form known as a placozoan has now joined other obscure and primitive creatures whose genomes are providing insight into how animals first arose more than 650 million years ago.Rolling 'Sea Grape' Rocks The Fossil Record
A submarine expedition that went looking for visually flashy sea creatures instead found a drab, mud-covered blob that may turn out to be truly spectacular indeed.PHOTOS: Colossal Squid Revealed in First In-Depth Look
A colossal squid caught last year—thought to be the largest ever recorded—is giving scientists their first close look at the rare and elusive sea creature.Ancient deep-sea coral reefs off southeastern US serve as underwater 'islands' in the Gulf stream
... commercially and recreationally important fish as well as sponges, crabs, brittle stars and other creatures. The corals also contain historical data about changing ocean climate and productivity, and ... Feature: Six easy lessons in sea sponges
While not the most attractive of ocean creatures, sea sponges have both a history and a future in scientific research, explains Dr Michael Ellwood.Endangered sea dragon at Ga. aquarium pregnant
ATLANTA (AP) -- A weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium has something to celebrate this Father's Day. One of the rare creatures is pregnant for only the third time ever at a U.S. aquarium, aquarium ... Genome sequence of small marine creature sheds light on vertebrate origins
... of eyes, limbs, and ears. A member of the chordata phylum along with tunicates (sea squirts) and vertebrates, amphioxus lacks the backbone or spinal column characteristic of vertebrate animals, yet ... Genome sequence of lancelet shows how genes quadrupled during vertebrate evolution
... sequenced genome of a dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best ... cephalocordates like the lancelet; urochordates like the sea squirt; and vertebrates like us. Cephalocordates ... Spotting the killer hot spots
... -heated ocean water which destroy huge areas of coral and bring starvation to birds, fish and other sea creatures can now be pinpointed, thanks to a major advance in the use of satellite technology by ... Whales and dolphins influence new wind turbine design
Sea creatures have evolved over millions of years to maximise efficiency of movement through water; humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century. So shouldn't we be ... Leatherback turtles go with the flow
... attempt to crawl to the ocean. From birth through adolescence, they are vulnerable to birds and other sea creatures. By the time they are full-grown, however, leatherbacks don't face many threats from ... Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
... tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale. "Our first study, back in 2006, made ...
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The sea creature giving Britain's olympic sailing squad a boost
Britain's sailing squad has an extra weapon going into the Olympics - an extract from a sea creature which could help keep them ready to race.Sea creature leaves trail of evolutionary clues
... Biologists exploring the ocean floor for new sea creatures have stumbled upon one of the largest known single-celled creatures, a bland, grape-sized distant cousin of the ...'Mind-Blowing' New Creature Discovered
Mysterious sea creatures grow into simple slug-like cell masses. These are no sea monkeys.Genome sequence deepens mystery of inconspicuous sea creature
... , a mysterious life form known as a placozoan has now joined other obscure and primitive creatures whose genomes are providing insight into how animals first arose more than 650 million years ago.Rolling 'Sea Grape' Rocks The Fossil Record
A submarine expedition that went looking for visually flashy sea creatures instead found a drab, mud-covered blob that may turn out to be truly spectacular indeed.PHOTOS: Colossal Squid Revealed in First In-Depth Look
A colossal squid caught last year—thought to be the largest ever recorded—is giving scientists their first close look at the rare and elusive sea creature.Ancient deep-sea coral reefs off southeastern US serve as underwater 'islands' in the Gulf stream
... commercially and recreationally important fish as well as sponges, crabs, brittle stars and other creatures. The corals also contain historical data about changing ocean climate and productivity, and ...Feature: Six easy lessons in sea sponges
While not the most attractive of ocean creatures, sea sponges have both a history and a future in scientific research, explains Dr Michael Ellwood.Endangered sea dragon at Ga. aquarium pregnant
ATLANTA (AP) -- A weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium has something to celebrate this Father's Day. One of the rare creatures is pregnant for only the third time ever at a U.S. aquarium, aquarium ...Genome sequence of small marine creature sheds light on vertebrate origins
... of eyes, limbs, and ears. A member of the chordata phylum along with tunicates (sea squirts) and vertebrates, amphioxus lacks the backbone or spinal column characteristic of vertebrate animals, yet ...Genome sequence of lancelet shows how genes quadrupled during vertebrate evolution
... sequenced genome of a dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best ... cephalocordates like the lancelet; urochordates like the sea squirt; and vertebrates like us. Cephalocordates ...Spotting the killer hot spots
... -heated ocean water which destroy huge areas of coral and bring starvation to birds, fish and other sea creatures can now be pinpointed, thanks to a major advance in the use of satellite technology by ...Whales and dolphins influence new wind turbine design
Sea creatures have evolved over millions of years to maximise efficiency of movement through water; humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century. So shouldn't we be ...Leatherback turtles go with the flow
... attempt to crawl to the ocean. From birth through adolescence, they are vulnerable to birds and other sea creatures. By the time they are full-grown, however, leatherbacks don't face many threats from ...Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
... tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale. "Our first study, back in 2006, made ...