TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fossils are everywhere in Kansas but there are some places where your chances of finding a link to the past are greater than others. The Sunflower State is home to numerous types of ...

A Sydney renter was stunned when she looked out her window and noticed rainfall revealing an intricate pattern on a large stone in her backyard. Source: Supplied “It was quite dirty so it wasn’t until ...

Sometime in April, a friend alerted me to some odd ball-shaped structures attached to a spruce log in Auke Lake. These are bryozoans, a type of minuscule aquatic animals. They constitute their own ...

Biogenic calcite and aragonite are major constituents of many marine calcifying organisms such as foraminifera, mollusks, corals, echinoderms, and bryozoa [ 1]. The mineralized hard parts of these ...

In most populations of mammals and birds offspring live with (and initally may depend upon) their parents. Consequently, population size is strongly influenced by local fecundity. In contrast, most ...

If you were to make a list of "things that have washed up on a Texas beach" you'd have quite a collection of different things. Sure, there are some things you'd expect to find washed up on the sand.

A “sauerkraut” looking creature is washing up along the Gulf of Mexico. Screengrab from Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Youtube video Fishers’ lines grew heavy as they looked for ...

You can expect to find these alien-like creatures in “large numbers” in bodies of water this summer. Meghan Overdeep has more than a decade of writing and editing experience for top publications. Her ...

A team of international scientists are in Whanganui this week to unearth unique fossils along the coastline. Since 2014, the group has travelled to Whanganui four times to collect samples of bryozoa - ...

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Bioactivity or biological activity of the metabolite may be in vitro, in vivo, or at the level of whole organism. The primary metabolites include polysaccharides, proteins, nucleic, and fatty acids; ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not seem like it would be a hospitable place. It is more than 1,000 miles from the nearest streak of land. The sun is brutal and unrelenting there, the waters ...