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Intertidal spiders and starfish night vision: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, February 22nd, 2018

Posted on February 22, 2018February 22, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Follow Jessica Meeuwig, the Director of the UWA Centre for Marine Futures, on twitter.
  • Check out #WowScienceFact, a science communication hashtag game that I started! 
  • Ocean tides could have driven ancient fish to walk. By Alexandra Witze, for Nature News.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Webs under water: the bizarre lives of intertidal spiders. By Bhanu Sridharan, for MongaBay
  • A pioneering plan to boost fish stocks shows little success. By Clare Leschin-Hoar, for NPR
  • To save the oceans now, museum maps the species of the past. By Jessica Leber, for OceansDeeply
  • Seabirds eat plastic because it smells like fish to them. By Simon Worral, for National Geographic.
  • Starfish can sea in the dark, and have other amazing abilities! By Colleen Suckling, for Scientific American
  • Fish are moving, but can fishermen adapt to warmer waters? By Erin Priddle, for the Environmental Defense Fund blog.
  • Shadowy criminals are prowling the seas, putting food supplies in danger. By Ted Kemp, for CNBC.
  • Queen conch are dying in the Bahamas despite marine parks. By Maria Salazar, for MongaBay
  • The cuttlefish, master of camouflage, unveils a new trick. By Veronique Greenwood, for the New York Times

 

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