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Giant whales, drowning historical sites, and slimy fish lips. Thursday Afternoon Dredging: June 8th, 2017

Posted on June 8, 2017June 8, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet):

  • Watch this salmon shark. Video by Ravencroft Lodge in Alaska

    Video by Ravencroft Lodge, Alaska
  • Follow Cassandra Ruck, a graduate student studying shark conservation genetics, on twitter!
  • Coral reef fish suck up their meals with slime covered lips. By Erin Ross, for Nature News.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Crunch time for biodiversity: farming and hunting push thousands of species towards extinction. By John Cannon, for MongaBay
  • Get in the sea: what should we do with coastal historical sites that will be lost to sea level rise? By Chitra Ramaswamy, for the Guardian.
  • Living large: how whales got to be so enormous. By Andrea Marks, for Scientific American.

 

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