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Walking fish and microbe warfare: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, February 15, 2018

Posted on February 15, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Follow Katelyn Heman, a marine conservation biologist working at the Georgia Aquarium, on twitter!
  • What this walking fish can teach us about evolution. By Sarah Gibbens, for National Geographic
  • Fish forego sleep thanks to this molecule in their brain. From Nature’s Animal Behavior news.
  • Microplastics pollute even the most remote parts of the ocean. By Sandra Laville, for the Guardian.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Protecting Panama’s humpback whales from ship collisions. By Mike Gaworecki, for MongaBay.
  • Polar bears need disappearing sea ice in more ways than one. By Randall Hyman, for Oceans Deeply
  • Marine microbes exchange fire with subcellular weapons. By Jennifer Frazer, for Scientific American.
  • We’re climate researchers, and our work was turned into fake news. From the Conversation.

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