AvatarShannon LumleyPalaeontologists solve an ancient tentacled mysteryverified_publisherThe Guardian - Susannah LydonExceptionally preserved fossils have enabled researchers to place a tricky group of extinct marine animals on the tree of life There are some fossils it’s difficult to get enthusiastic about. Don’t get me wrong: as someone whose PhD focussed on the fossil equivalent of tea-leaves, my threshold for …
AvatarShannon LumleyThe missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found | Aeon IdeasAeon Magazine - by Adrian Currie & Derek TurnerThe coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fishes, with weird appendages that take the form of bony, fleshy, muscular stalks. They’re …
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AvatarShannon LumleyLive Ruby Seadragon Caught on Tape for the First Timementalfloss.com - Michele DebczakGlenn Moore & Sue Morrison/Western Australian Museum via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 3.0 Ruby seadragons are majestic and fascinating, but, up until …
AvatarShannon LumleyKiller whales explain the mystery of the menopauseverified_publisherThe Guardian - Robin McKieA study of the whales, one of only three species whose older females stop reproducing, claims competition between offspring may be the cause Killer whales and humans would seem to have little in common. We inhabit very different ecosystems, after all. Yet the two species share one unexpected …
AvatarShannon LumleyEndangered dolphins and turtles entangled in NSW shark netsverified_publisher Australia News - Christopher KnausReport shows of 748 marine animals caught in 2015-16, 86% were threatened, protected or species not intended to be targeted by shark nets Nine bottlenose dolphins, four common dolphins and one dolphin that was so decomposed that it could not be identified were caught in shark nets across 51 New …
