Hungry Hungry Microbes: Oil Eating Bacteria Help to Clean Up Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible off-shore drilling rig was an engineering marvel that set the record for drilling the world’s deepest oil well in September 2009. The roughly 7-mile-deep…
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Female Pit Vipers Give Birth Without Mating
In what could be the ultimate act of feminism, wild female North American pit vipers have been shown to give birth without mating, according to a new report published in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters.…
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Red Swamp Crayfish Plays Host To Diminutive Crustaceans
The small ostracod, or seed shrimp, Ankylocythere sinuosa, lives on other crayfish and measures just half a millimeter in length. For the first time, Spanish scientists have found the ostracod in Europe. It…
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