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Amazing secrets in the ocean
Oceanography

Amazing secrets in the ocean

Dolphins with penetrating vision, brain-eating or catfish-eating ink, with up to 100,000 spikes are interesting memorabilia of the ocean world discovered by scientists.

December 17, 2018
Huge bacterial carpet in the ocean
Oceanography

Huge bacterial carpet in the ocean

Scientists have discovered a giant carpet of bacteria in the 130,000-square-kilometer oceanic ocean off the coast of Chile and Peru.

December 17, 2018
Strange life form in the Great Lakes
Oceanography

Strange life form in the Great Lakes

Strange geological formations are creating conditions for the floating microbial carpet to grow in the Great Lakes.

December 17, 2018
Why smell the sea?
Oceanography

Why smell the sea?

A beach trip means sand in your feet, salt water in your mouth and cool air in your nose. But what brought the sea something so pleasant and unmistakable? Now the curtai…

December 17, 2018
Tooth decay and coral reef death
Oceanography

Tooth decay and coral reef death

Corals can be damaged by a process similar to human decay. Under normal conditions corals live in symbiosis with unicellular algae, but when environmental pollution occu…

December 17, 2018
The bone-eating worms are bizarre
Oceanography

The bone-eating worms are bizarre

The worm lives on the skeleton of a small gray whale in an undersea gulf off California as the first known whale-eating seaworm. On the whale bone, once the worms have b…

December 17, 2018
The culprit killed the Sultan of ancient Egypt
Archeology

The culprit killed the Sultan of ancient Egypt

Dr. Stephen J. Gluckman, a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, diagnosed the illness of Sultan Saladin after carefull…

December 17, 2018