Deep in the Sea, Imagining the Cradle of Life on Earth
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Cindy Lee Van Dover is a pioneer: a submarine pilot and the first woman to direct the Duke University Marine Laboratory.
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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A study on a 15 million-year-old underground Antarctic lake could yield clues on the origins of life.
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An ambitious two-year effort aims to understand the vital, shifting dynamics of ice, oceans and life at the ends of the earth.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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Can cruise ships and nature coexist? An experiment gets under way in Cozumel to test the idea.
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A spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists said.
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By Heath, David  Seagrasses, an ecologically important group of flowering plants that have adapted to life submerged in seawater, are in dire need of a targeted global conservation effort to protect them and lhc services they provide, according to an international team of scientists.
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By JOHN ROSS  A GLIMPSE of rare treasures of the deep has been captured by scientists studying two of Scotland's best-known sea lochs.
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Star dust found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has led German scientists to speculate that a supernova explosion 3 million years ago might possibly have helped bring about human evolution.
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By Steve Connor  A census of ocean life has revealed a treasure chest of living jewels ranging from a mighty microbe as big as a fingernail to a furry crab and a giant lobster.
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Fossils of ancient marine reptiles that lived 230 million years ago show the prehistoric creatures gave birth to live young, scientists said on Wednesday.
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More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside our solar system may harbor Earth-like planets covered in deep global oceans that offer abundant potential for life, according to a new study by scientists associated with NASA's Astrobiology Institute.
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America's favorite deep-sea sponge is coming to the surface.
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WASHINGTON - Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.  At one site, nearly two miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Scientists believe a 50-million-year record of the Earth's climate lies in an underwater mountain chain in the ice-clogged waters near the North Pole.
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Unraveling the genetic map of diatoms -- microscopic sea creatures -- could pay big dividends in defending the world's ecological systems. By Kristen Philipkoski.