A team of marine biologists led by a Florida International University researcher has described a new species of the shark genus Sphyrna from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic. Sphyrna alleni, a male collected in Riversdale, Belize. Image credit: Cindy Gonzalez. Named for the unusual and distinctive form of their heads, hammerhead sharks belong to
Xibalbanus tulumensis , a venomous remipede found in anchialine caves on the Yucatán Peninsula, is the only crustacean for which a venom system has been described. Xibalbanus tulumensis. Image credit: Pinheiro-Junior et al., doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-01955-5. “Venomous animals inject their toxic compounds into other organisms primarily for self-defense or predation,” said Dr. Björn von Reumont, a
Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple species of fungi for food, but the history of fungus-ant co-evolution is poorly known. In a new study published this week in the journal Science, researchers found that fungus-ant agriculture originated approximately 66 million years ago when the end-of-Cretaceous asteroid impact temporarily interrupted photosynthesis, causing global mass extinctions but favoring the
Prior studies found signs of ice in the permanently shadowed regions near the south pole of the Moon, including areas within Cabeus, Haworth, Shoemaker and Faustini craters. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) shows there is widespread evidence of water ice within permanently shadowed regions outside the south pole, towards
Centaurs are former trans-Neptunian objects that have been moved inside Neptune’s orbit by subtle gravitational influences of the planets in the last few million years, and may eventually become short-period comets. An artist’s concept of 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1’s outgassing activity as seen from the side. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / L. Hustak, STScI.
Play is a widespread behavior present in distant species that, in its social form, relies on complex communication. Playful communication has been largely neglected in marine mammals. In new research, scientists from the University of Pisa and colleagues focused on playful visual communication in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). “We’ve uncovered the presence of a distinct
Updated 2 months ago · Published on 11 Sep 2024 4:00PM · The Sarawak DAP assemblyman for Pending, Violet Yong, has claimed that the Autonomous Rapid Transit hydrogen tram project in Kuching will cost up to a shocking RM6 billion. – Facebook pic, September 11, 2024. THE SARAWAK DAP assemblyman for Pending, Violet Yong, has claimed
Home Hydrogen Second European Hydrogen Bank auction with €1.2 billion budget is officially open December 3, 2024, by Ajsa Habibic The European Commission (EC) has officially opened the second auction under the European Hydrogen Bank, via the Innovation Fund (IF24), to allocate €1.2 billion from EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) revenues to support producers of hydrogen categorized as
Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct armadillo genus Parutaetus from fossilized osteoderms collected in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil. Hypothetical artistic reconstruction of Parutaetus oliveirai in the Middle-Late Eocene of Brazil. Image credit: Márcio L. Castro. Parutaetus oliveirai inhabited South America between 42 and 39 million years ago (Middle-Late Eocene
The Neanderthal groups that inhabited a cave in what is now Spain approximately 46,000 years ago gathered and collected fossils, according to a paper published in the journal Quaternary. Marine fossils from Prado Vargas Cave, Spain. Image credit: Ruiz et al., doi: 10.3390/quat7040049. Collecting is a form of leisure, and even a passion, consisting of
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ , a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. The U.S. Department of Energy is rolling out the first installment of its $1 billion commitment to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the Midwest, part of a bid by the Biden administration
