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Invisible squid and fish with glowing eye spikes: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, April 5th, 2018

Posted on April 5, 2018April 2, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Follow Louise Chavarie, an Arctic aquatic ecologist, on twitter!
  • A squid-skin inspired invisibility cloak. From Nature News research updates.
  • Underwater noise pollution disturbs fish, too. From CBC News.
  • NOAA publishes list of global fisheries and their risks to marine mammals. By John Cannon, for MongaBay
  • Antarctic ice melting faster than thought. By Jonathan Watts, for the Guardian.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Why did this fish evolve a glowing eye spike? By Troy Farah, for Smithsonian Magazine.
  • Spying on whales to save them. By Marguerite Holloway, for the New Yorker.
  • Why red coral lives 500 years. By Liz Langley, for National Geographic
  • Rising CO2 levels could be messing with squid. By Maddie Stone, for Earther.

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