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Cape Cod Times
April 30, 2018
Until recently, scientists believed marine mammals' known physical adaptations protected them from the effects of such punishing depths. ... of oxygen and carbon dioxide but block the nitrogen,” said Michael Moore, a WHOI senior scientist who specializes in the analysis of marine mammal mortalities.
Scientific American (blog)
April 30, 2018
Pacific Northwest salmon populations are declining rapidly, microplastic pollution is spreading across our oceans, and global warming is causing disparity in the sex ratio of sea turtles. This much is clear: our oceans' inhabitants need heroes now more than ever. To be clear, our marine species are notÃâà...
Genetic Literacy Project
April 28, 2018
Over time, Smith says, the downsizing of mammals affected the environment in ways you might not imagine—for example, in the erosion of the land. … We still have lots of furry little mammals on the planet. But the pattern is clear: 11,000 years ago, the average mass of a non-human mammal in NorthÃâà...
News24
April 28, 2018
Australia's extinction rate for mammals, already the highest in the world, could worsen unless efforts are made to protect the most endangered species over the next two decades, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers from the government-funded Threatened Species Recovery Hub identified 10Ãâà...
Scientific American
April 20, 2018
In North America the average mammal weighed around 98 kilograms before the ancestors of humans showed up. Today the average size is closer to eight kilograms. “We've lopped a couple orders of magnitude off the distribution of mammals' [body sizes],” Smith says. For most of mammalian evolutionaryÃâà...
Ars Technica
April 19, 2018
About 11.5 percent of the mammal species in North America at the time, and 9.7 percent of those in South America, didn't survive long after the arrival of humans, and it was disproportionately the large species that were weeded out. The mean body mass of North American mammals dropped by a factor ofÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 19, 2018
Humans Have Caused Mammals to Shrink. More. Researchers say large mammals, such as elephants, are at a greater risk of extinction. (Xinhua/Lyu Shuai via Getty Images). The size of the average mammal has been shrinking for more than 100,000 years – and it's all because of humans. RELATEDÃâà...
The Wire
March 29, 2018
The Quiet Endangerment of The Tallest Mammals. Giraffe numbers have plunged by 40% in the last three decades thanks to habitat loss and poaching. The Quiet Endangerment of The Tallest Mammals. Credit: pixabay. The Wire Staff Ãâ÷ Environment. 3 minutes ago. In 2016, the International Union for the Conservation ofÃâà...
Labmate Online
March 29, 2018
The FLIR P65 and E300 systems have most recently been used by McCafferty and colleagues at the University of St Andrews and Edinburgh Napier University to study the thermal physiology of marine mammals. Accurate and high spatial resolution of temperature is required for this purpose. Most species of seals need toÃâà...
Smithsonian
March 28, 2018
To look into the size of marine mammals, researchers examined the body masses of 3,859 living mammal species and 2,999 from the fossil record. The results suggest that when mammal species move into the water, they begin to evolve into larger species. According to a press release, aquatic mammalsÃâà...
Open Access Government
March 28, 2018
But if you scour the scientific literature for regenerative ability in mammals there seems to be quite a number of diverse reports. ... Excitingly, it now appears that we may have discovered an adult mammal which can regenerate many organs, namely the spiny mouse of the genus Acomys (Fig. 1A). There areÃâà...
OUPblog (blog)
March 27, 2018
March Mammal Madness was created by Dr. Katie Hinde of Arizona State University and is a program which presents a bracket of 64 species of ... Nicole Taylor: What inspired you to start March Mammal Madness (MMM)? .... Although some mammalogists are wondering, “did we run out of mammals?”.
National Geographic
March 27, 2018
Previously, researchers believed that marine mammals could be so large because the buoyancy of water frees them from the constraints of gravity. Although this freedom may still be a factor, Gearty says that his results show that marine mammals need their heft to keep themselves warm in the often chillyÃâà...
Science Magazine
March 27, 2018
In general, aquatic mammals tend to be larger than their closest land-bound relatives. The largest sea lions are twice as big as the largest bears, for example, and manatees outweigh their cat-size hyrax cousins by nearly 500 kilograms. To find out why, researchers looked at the sizes of four differentÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 26, 2018
... groups took the Trump administration to task for failing to protect the vaquita porpoise, the world's rarest (and perhaps cutest) marine mammal, from likely extinction. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses the Trump team of violating federal laws designed to protect the vaquita and other marine mammals.
Hamilton College News
March 15, 2018
The Hamilton in NYC program recently heard from Chris Nagy, director of research and education at Mianus River Gorge Preserve – an independent, not-for-profit organization which works to preserve the Mianus River watershed and undertakes scientific research and public education throughout theÃâà...
KRQE News 13
March 15, 2018
Zoo officials say marine mammals like polar bears and seals all over the world need our help to survive a changing climate and shrinking habitats. The zoo is hosting a special event this week for the public to learn how they can help. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Thursday throughÃâà...
Simcoe.com
March 15, 2018
A skilled mammal tracker knows the exact number of seed eaters, seedling, sapling and twig browsers, and ratio of predator to prey in your local forest, woodlot or meadow. This is important since it gives an idea on how the area will look in 20 years. However, becoming an expert mammal tracker takesÃâà...
KRQE News 13
March 14, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Marine mammals all over the world need our help with changing climate, polluted oceans and shrinking habitat leaving many species to dire straits. Attendees can learn more about marine mammals and what they can do to help during Marine Mammal Celebration this week at theÃâà...
Science Trends
March 14, 2018
As many of us know, dolphins are aquatic mammals with a lung that needs air to breathe. This generalized definition of a dolphin means that they can include many different aquatic mammals like whales or porpoises. However, the dolphin is a paraphyletic group that includes some species belonging to theÃâà...
Science Daily
March 13, 2018
A team of researchers has developed a light-activated switch that can turn genes on and off in mammalian cells. This is the most efficient so-called "optogenetic switch" activated by red and far-red light that has been successfully designed and tested in animal cells -- and it doesn't require the addition ofÃâà...
East Anglian Daily Times
March 6, 2018
Key speakers at the Suffolk Mammal Conference, standing, from left, Paul Cantwell, Dr Tom August, Pc Lee Andrews-Pearce, Dr Matt Heydon, Dr Simone ... Suffolk's mammals may be diverse in character but they share a common right to be allowed to live their lives alongside their fellow mammalian countyÃâà...
GenomeWeb
March 6, 2018
The study, appearing online today in Cell Reports, led to candidate functional elements at sites that are highly conserved in most mammals but show ... centered on seven mammalian species, some living on land or underground, and others adapted to marine environments, the researchers explained.
Photonics.com
March 6, 2018
This super-resolved 3D reconstruction of the entire nuclear lamina of a mammalian cell was acquired using TILT3D. Scale is in micrometers. Courtesy of Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Moerner Laboratory.
Sidney Herald Leader
March 6, 2018
Their concert will preview selections from Sunshiner, offering songs that promise to whoop up a ruckus and others that may make even a grown mammal cry. Over a decade ago, in The Mammals' first incarnation (which featured founding member Tao Rodriguez-Seeger) the Washington Post describedÃâà...
Sci-News.com
March 6, 2018
This was a time when the first vertebrates crawled on to land to give rise to amphibians and over succeeding millennia reptiles, birds and mammals. With their proto-lungs and ... Cardiorespiratory interactions previously identified as mammalian are present in the primitive lungfish. Science Advances 4 (2):Ãâà...
Science Daily
March 5, 2018
Mammals show an increase in heart rate when breathing in and a decrease during expiration -- a cardiorespiratory process known as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). This process and its underlying control mechanisms have been considered by many scientists to be solely mammalian but the presentÃâà...
KTOO
March 3, 2018
“Marine mammals are very sensitive to noise, and all this additional shipping in these waters might create an impact by the introduction of noise,” Antunes said. Scientists have used satellite tags and aerial surveys to track mammals in the Bering Sea, but Antunes said a study like this one is something new.
Sierra Magazine
March 3, 2018
To most people, the ocean environment seems like one of serene silence. In reality, it's a smorgasbord of sound. And not all of the noise is helpful to the marine life inhabiting it. In January, the Trump administration proposed opening up more than 90 percent of U.S. coastline to offshore oil and gas drilling.
Knom (blog)
March 2, 2018
What the sounds show right now—the baseline Antunes talked about—is not surprising: ships pass through in the summer, and marine mammals are most common in the winter, when sea ice locks up the Bering Strait and St. Lawrence Island. Seals and walrus use that ice to haul out, and hunters use it toÃâà...
Mongabay.com
March 2, 2018
Scientists tested the accuracy of determining marine mammal size by analyzing aerial photography taken from a small drone as a less costly, less stressful alternative to manual capture and measurement. To be precise in their measurements of leopard seals, the researchers took overhead photographs atÃâà...
Sci-News.com
March 2, 2018
... some neurons in bird brains form the same kind of circuitry and have the same molecular signature as cells that enable connectivity between different areas of the mammalian neocortex. Professor Ragsdale and co-authors found that alligators share these cell types as well, suggesting that while mammal,Ãâà...
Science Daily
March 2, 2018
This super-resolved 3-D reconstruction of the entire nuclear lamina of a mammalian cell was acquired using TILT3D. Scale is in micrometers. ... called super-resolution microscopy. Now, he and his lab have created a new microscope that produces 3-D nanoscale images of mammalian cells in their entirety.
Shelter Island Reporter
March 1, 2018
Book in the Woods, “Mud” by Mary Lyn Ray and Lauren Stringer. Take half-mile walk and read a story as you go. Through March. Mashomack Preserve. Art history course, by Otis College of Art and Design sponsored by the library. Learn about the role of the French avant-garde in modern approaches to artÃâà...
Auburn Journal
March 1, 2018
Indie-roots trailblazers, The Mammals roll into Grass Valley for a stop at The Center for the Arts on Saturday. The Mammals are a high-octane Americana quintet from New York's storied Hudson Valley carrying on the work of Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie with a deep original repertoire, searing AmericanÃâà...
Fond du Lac Reporter
February 28, 2018
CAMPBELLSPORT – The public is invited to attend Kettle Moraine State Forest - Northern Unit's Evening with Nature series, “Tiny Mammals of Southeast Wisconsin” at 7 p.m. on March 8 at the Ice Age Visitor Center, off State 67 a half-mile west of Dundee. This program is free, but donations are alwaysÃâà...
Science Daily
February 28, 2018
A broad survey conducted across southern Asia reinforces the idea that the mammal biodiversity of an area can be determined by looking at the DNA found in leeches' blood meals. The new study, led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, also shows for the first time that DNA found inÃâà...
OCRegister
February 27, 2018
This year, the Pacific Marine Mammal Center is a co-sponsor. The Laguna Beach nonprofit rescues marine mammals along Orange County's coastline. Proceeds from the speaker series will benefit its rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Last year, PMMC rescued 124 sea lions, 53 elephant seals, four harborÃâà...
Ashland Daily Press
February 27, 2018
This past fall, a funding drive spearheaded by the North End Ski Club and community member Ron Caple made it possible for us to commission a set of 25 new metal mammals cut by Mark Blaskey in Altoona, Wisconsin. We reprinted the booklets, too, which contain drawings, information and tracks for allÃâà...
Scientific American (blog)
February 26, 2018
The future of marine mammals is at risk in U.S. waters. President Trump's proposed budget for fiscal year 2019 would eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission. With an annual operating budget of $3.4 million, which comes to just over one penny per American per year, the Marine Mammal CommissionÃâà...
Quartz
February 22, 2018
Entire species benefit, though, when the survivors make it to mating season to pass on their successful genes. Anthropogenic climate change is messing with the system. As the planet warms, cold regions that used to be white and snowy in the winter are staying brown. Mammals in these regions that moltÃâà...
Smithsonian
February 22, 2018
Even before completing his bird book, Audubon began thinking about documenting mammals in the same fashion. His collaborator, John Bachman, a clergyman and amateur naturalist from Charleston, would provide a text based on Audubon's report from an expedition into the West. The new work was to be called TheÃâà...
Times of Oman
December 31, 1999
Muscat: Cows could become the largest mammals on earth if extinction continues at its current rate, according to a study published in the journal Science. ... If the trend continues "the largest mammal on Earth in a few hundred years may well be a domestic cow at about 900 kg", the researchers wrote.
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
"How some marine mammals and turtles can repeatedly dive as deep and as long as they do has perplexed scientists for a very long time," says Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI and co-author of the study. "This paper opens a window through which we can take a newÃâà...
Stanford University News
December 31, 1999
Giant mammals, such as mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, and sabertooth tigers, once wandered every habitable continent but went extinct. New research demonstrates that such mammal biodiversity loss – a major conservation concern today – is part of a long-term trend lasting at least 125,000 years.
Telegraph.co.uk
December 31, 1999
A zoo has put all of its mammals on birth control amid fears of overcrowding following an outbreak of TB. Paignton Zoo was forced to cull 11 antelopes last year after TB was discovered in one of the animals. Now Government restrictions imposed on the Devonshire sanctuary prevent it from moving any of itsÃâà...
Mother Nature Network
December 31, 1999
2018 marks the sixth annual March Mammal Madness, an event put on by professors at Arizona State University (ASU) that mimics the annual 64-team, single-elimination NCAA Division I basketball tournament. It pits mammals and non-mammals in bracket matchups of simulated survival, but don't worry:Ãâà...
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
Many fundamental aspects of the early stages of embryonic development in humans are found to be conserved in other mammals. This is why studies carried out on animal models can help us to understand the development of the human embryo. Most of these studies have been done on mouse embryos.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
If the situation did not improve within hours, caregivers would isolate the animal and begin a feeding program, starting with colostrum, an ultranutritious substance that mammals produce for a few days after birth to build a baby's immune system. It could take nine months and about 550 gallons of milk mixÃâà...
