nature
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The Oceans Are Turning Into a Layer Cake
The oceans are facing a host of maladies, from acidification to sea level rise. Turning them into a ginormous liquid layer cake may sound comparatively benign (and delicious). But while Gizmodo is decidedly pro-cake, this is in fact a bad situation.
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We Mapped Half a Billion Years of Horseshoe Crabs to Save Them From Blood Harvests
If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs – the animals time forgot. Fossil records for horseshoe crabs extend back about 480 million years. This is well over 200 million years before the…
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‘Vampire Fish’ Gorged On Great Lakes Trout Until The Invasive Species Was Subdued
A sea lamprey has no jaw, no proper teeth and no bones. Yet this predator can attach like a suction cup to a fish 100 times its size, use its tongue to burrow a hole into its side, liquefy its tissues and eat it.
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What The ‘Humans Are The Virus’ Meme Gets So Wrong
There’s been a line of thinking burbling around certain corners of the internet that the coronavirus is good, actually. That it’s nature’s way of healing itself or alternately punishing us, Old Testament-style.