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Biology Mammals Mating & Reproduction New Research Weird

The Antarctic is a rough neighbourhood

There’s a fascinating article getting some press this week, all about a growing incidence of an extraordinary bit of animal behaviour in the islands just…

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Three Reasons Why Fukushima Radiation Has Nothing to Do with Starfish Wasting Syndrome

Dr. M December 30, 2013 Bacteria disease Fukushima lesion Radiation starfish starfish wasting virus

This invited post is authored by Chris Mah, a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher. Chris is one of the world’s leading experts…

Conservation & Environment Mammals

Dolphins are trying to tell us something

Alistair Dove December 1, 2013 disease dolphins stranding

Deep Sea News folks aren’t exactly famous for their love of dolphins (if you haven’t read Dr. M.’s “10 reasons why dolphins are a**holes“, well,…

Ecology Organisms

Silence in the Sierras

Miriam Goldstein September 12, 2011 backpacking chytrid disease extinction frog frogs hiking Sierra Nevadas Sierras

Last week I got back from a 97-mile backpacking trip through the southern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. We started at Bishop Pass and hike…