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Archive for January 27th, 2014


   Jan 27

Amazing discovery in Antarctica: sea anemones found living upside down under ice (photos)

By Herp News Sea anemones are supposed to sit on the bottom of the ocean, using their basal disc (or adhesive foot) to rest on a coral reef orsand. So, imagine the surprise of geologists in Antarctica when they discovered a mass of sea anemones hanging upside from the underside of the Ross Ice Shelf […]

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   Jan 27

Galapagos tortoise lineages may be brought back from extinction

After the death of Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Galapagos tortoise, the extinction toll on the species seemed irreversible. That may not be the case, however, says Michael Russello, an associate professor of biology at the University of British Columbia. From the Harvard Gazette: The findings prompted a larger 2008 expedition, in which […]

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