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Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing

June 15, 2020
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in their next revisions, despite some initial concerns from US Pharmacopia experts in May. Lonza...

Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small

May 28, 2020
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage around the...

Listen to the song of the Arctic unicorn (video)

May 26, 2020
With the help of Inuit hunters, geophysicists recently recorded the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. The recordings help scientists better...

Satellites confirm largest macroalgae bloom

July 11, 2019
Satellite observations have confirmed the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, which has mostly formed in the last eight years, possibly as a result of human activities.

Deep ocean garbage

May 15, 2019
Plastic debris has been found in the deepest part of the ocean. As part of The Five Deeps expedition, US explorer Victor Vescovo travelled 10,927 metres to the bottom of...

Radioactive carbon in deep ocean crustaceans

May 14, 2019
Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from nuclear bomb tests more than 50 years ago has entered the food chain at the deepest parts of the ocean. Chinese Academy of...

Pumping guts not heart keep sea spiders alive

August 9, 2017
Researchers have discovered a scientific oddity – a sea creature that uses its gut, not its heart, to pump blood around its body.

New discovery turns coral development theory upside down

July 27, 2017
Coral growth theory needs revisiting, after large numbers of colonies were discovered in areas once thought inhabitable.

The rise of a shape-shifting animal revealed

July 12, 2017
An international group of scientists have determined how some of the first large organisms were able to change their body shape and size. Known as rangeomorphs, the organisms could grow...

What came first, the sponge or the comb jelly?

May 4, 2017
Scientists have reignited a zoology debate by claiming the earliest branch of the animal family tree was not sponges but instead marine invertebrates called comb jellies.

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