Globe-Trotting Foxes Crossed Arctic Land Bridge
Image Credit: Jean-Edouard Rozey / Shutterstock John Neumann for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Sometime between 200 and 500 years ago, in the throes of a mini ice age, sea ice had become thick…
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Pinyon Pine Trees Are Dying In The American Southwest
Image Credit: urosr / Shutterstock Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Pinyon Pine trees of the American southwest are dying off in large numbers, and many researchers have already guessed what…
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Red Swamp Crayfish Plays Host To Diminutive Crustaceans
Image Credit: Photos.com April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The small ostracod, or seed shrimp, Ankylocythere sinuosa, lives on other crayfish and measures just half a millimeter in length. For the first time,…
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Hungry Hungry Microbes: Oil Eating Bacteria Help to Clean Up Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Image Credit: US Coast Guard Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible off-shore drilling rig was an engineering marvel that set the record…
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Female Pit Vipers Give Birth Without Mating
Image Credit: Photos.com Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online 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…
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Is 100 Most Threatened Species List A Popularity Contest?
Image Credit: nico99 / Shutterstock Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Are the important causes of biodiversity and conservation devolving into more and more of a popularity contest? More than 8,000 scientists…
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