Weird Sea Mollusk Sports Hundreds of Eyes Made of Armor
A marine mollusk built like a tiny tank can see with eyes made of the same material as its armor. Acanthopleura granulata is a chiton, a pill bug of the sea. This animal has a shell made of overlapping...
View ArticleScientists reveal how fish can turn invisible in the open sea
A new study shows how some fish are able to reflect and manipulate vibrations from polarized light to affectively disappear from predators. ......
View ArticleMantis Shrimp Use Secret Light Show To Signal Aggression
Everyone loves the mantis shrimp: It’s one of the most aggressive, quirky creatures evolution has ever engineered. There are 400 separate species, each of them possessing one of two types of claws,...
View ArticleThese Mollusks Have Hundreds of Eyes In Their Armor
Little marine mollusks called chitons can’t move very fast, but they do have spiky armored shells made of aragonite. When they spot a predator, they just clamp down tightly, even onto the slippery...
View ArticleScientists discover how ocean fish magically disappear. Now the Navy wants to...
Harry Potter's invisibility cloak is real. Well, for some fish at least. A study released Thursday says that two ocean fish — the big-eyed scad and the lookdown — have fine-tuned a method of avoiding...
View ArticleCamouflage Trick That Makes Fish Seemingly Disappear Revealed
The proverbial sailor who went to sea and saw nothing but the deep blue sea may in fact have been fooled by the amazing camouflage capabilities of open-ocean fish. The secret to this amazing...
View ArticleHiding in Plain Sight: Camouflage in Open Ocean Fish (University of Connecticut)
(Source: University of Connecticut) Professor Heidi Dierssen (right) and Ph.D. candidate Brandon Russell (left) use a custom-built dive spectrometer to measure the way light reflects and depolarizes...
View ArticleNew Discovery of Fish Camouflage Mechanism in the Ocean (FAU - Florida...
(Source: FAU - Florida Atlantic University) Research By Gisele Galoustian | 11/19/2015 The vast open ocean presents an especially challenging environment for its inhabitants since there is nowhere for...
View ArticleNew camouflage mechanism fish use in the open ocean
Fish have a remarkable way to hide from their predators using camouflage techniques. A new study shows that fish scales have evolved to not only reflect light, but to also scramble polarization....
View ArticleThis technology will make solar cells more efficient
WASHINGTON: Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new technology that could significantly improve the efficiency and lower the cost of solar cells. Researchers at Stanford...
View ArticleFossil shows how snakes lost their legs (The University of Edinburgh)
(Source: The University of Edinburgh) Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle - how snakes lost their limbs. The 90 million-year-old skull is giving...
View ArticleNMSU graduate student conducts fish research from the depths of the Grand...
(Source: New Mexico State University) Date: 11/23/2015 Writer: Kristie Garcia, 575-646-4211, kmgarcia@nmsu.edu Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ Getting lowered in by helicopter to the bottom of the...
View ArticleAntarctic Ocean: no consensus yet on sanctuaries
As the southern hemisphere summer sets in, fishing trawlers from numerous nations head southwards, many of them to the southern ocean. Around this time (October) delegates of member nations of the...
View ArticleUltrasound Used To Take Super-Resolution Images Of Rat's Brain
Scientists have been able to create amazing high resolution microscopic images of the blood vessel network in the brain of a rat, using ultrasound. The technique, developed by a team of researchers in...
View ArticleBiomedical Imaging at One-Thousandth the Cost (MIT Media Lab)
(Source: MIT Media Lab) MIT researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system that could ultimately replace a $100,000 piece of a lab equipment with components that cost just hundreds of dollars....
View ArticleNew approach to preserving organs for later use
New York, Nov 30 (IANS) Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have discovered a new approach to preserving tissues and even organs for later use. "This could be an important step toward the...
View Article90 million-year-old fossil shows how snakes lost their legs
Snakes lost their limbs when their ancestors evolved to wriggle through burrows, and not in order to live in the sea, according to a new analysis of a 90 million-year-old reptile fossil skull....
View ArticleAntarctic Ocean: no consensus yet on sanctuaries
As the southern hemisphere summer sets in, fishing trawlers from numerous nations head southwards, many of them to the southern ocean. Around this time (October) delegates of member nations of the...
View ArticleThe biological secrets that make Sherpas superhuman mountaineers
(CNN)Mount Everest is the ultimate test for adventurers trying to test their boundaries, but when it comes to climbing this natural monument, one group of people excel -- Sherpas. The Sherpa people are...
View ArticleRevealed – the single event that made complex life possible in our oceans...
(Source: University of Bristol) The catalyst that allowed the evolution of complex life in Earth's oceans has been identified by a University of Bristol researcher. Up to 800 million years ago, the...
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