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"We think that this extremely rare creature is an early ancestor of squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods", says Martin Smith from the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto.
Read MoreAccording to the Swedish Heritage Act findings from within the Swedish economic zone has to be handed over to the Swedish government if they were salvaged by a Swedish vessel or transferred to Swedish territory.
Read MoreResearchers have known for years that juvenile fish use sound as a cue to find coral reefs.
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Read MoreAccording to the first-ever mangrove species assessment conducted by the IUCN Red List, 11 of the world’s 70 mangrove species are threatened with extinction, including two which were listed as Critically Endangered.
Read MoreAccording to San Diego biology professor Bob Zeller, the invertebrate that grows on boat hulls and dock pilings shares a protein with humans leads to the development of plaques, the brain irregularities that are linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Read MoreOur daily sleep cycles, behaviour and metabolism are regulated by a powerful master clock, which resides in an area of the brain known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
,Natural melatonin is a popular treatment for patients with body clock-related sleep disorders.
Read MoreSwathes full of drifting plastic bits are especially common in a region of the Pacific Ocean southwest of California that is sometimes called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Read MoreIn a new study, Professor Bruce Mate from the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Oregon working with Jorge Urban of the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur, placed data-recording tags on sperm whales feeding on Humboldt squid in the Gulf
Read MoreBlue whale songs are getting deeper, say baffled scientists.
Read MoreThe Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber crashed into Lake Michigan in the 1940's.
The Dauntless was one of more than 100 military planes lost in Lake Michigan during World War II when naval pilots trained by landing on a pair of passenger liners turned into aircraft carriers, the Tribune reported.
A World War II-era bomber is to be put on display in a museum in New Orleans, salvage operators who raised the plane said.
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