New Deep-Sea Research Centre
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By , on January 17th, 2010 Leave a comment   Industry & Government, New Research, Scientist!   , , , ,  

…or Center depending on where you live. Although in the US we feel the need to discard oceanography Portugal is a little more forward thinking. Portugal’s Minister for Science and Universities, Mariano Gago, has announced plans to set up a cutting-edge research centre in the Azores Islands to study the deep Atlantic. Minister Gago unveiled . . . → Read More: New Deep-Sea Research Centre

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Trilobites Ride the Crazy Train
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By , on May 21st, 2009 3 comments   Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Paleobiology   , , , , , , ,  

A new paper published recently in the journal Geology reports on peculiar conga party lines of our paleo-friend, the Trilobite. Gutierrez-Marco and colleagues discovered a quarry replete with marine invertebrate fossil, including potentially some of the largest trilobite specimens ever found. Curiously though, these capricious little critters were found exhibiting some rather gregarious behavior! They . . . → Read More: Trilobites Ride the Crazy Train

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