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Horseshoe Crabs

Horseshoe crabs are one of the coolest animals around. Horseshoe crabs are not true crabs. instead, they're arachnids, distantly related to spiders. Their closest living relative, the trilobite, has been...

6 comments    animals nature environment
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A List of Sustainable Fish and Seafood. Which Fish You Should and Shouldn't Eat.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/macieklew/351022849/ You'd rather not support destructive fishing practices and don't relish the thought of an endangered species on the BBQ – but on the other hand, you’re no...

3 comments    salmon shrimp tuna
Cal's new book about the massive jellyfish explosions in the world's oceans. What damage have they done besides killing 40 times more people each year than all the sharks left in the seas, and why they are increasing in number so quickly.  An excitin63

Why the oceans are turning to jelly(fish).

Over the past two hundred years, eighty-nine species of animals have gone extinct, and another 140 are on the endangered lists and will be gone by the end of this century. The world is in the midst of the...

2 comments    environment oceans jellyfish
It was common to catch fish as big as people in the 1950s Florida.77

We Are Living Through An Extinction Event Which Dwarfs The Dinosaur Die-Off

It was common to catch fish as big as people in the 1950s Florida.  The ten-year Census of Marine Life has shown that since humans began large scale ocean fishing approximately a thousand years ago, we have...

4 comments    hubchallenge fish biology
The Klamath River77

Should They Un-Dam the Klamath River?

  Residents of Oregon and California are enmeshed in a long-running campaign to force the corporation, PacifiCorp, to remove four dams on the lower section of the Klamath River so fish habitat can be...

3 comments    business recreation california
Overfishing71

Fish to avoid and fish to eat

Fish is some of the healthiest protein we can eat, but the fishing industry can be incredibly environmentally destructive. Studies have found huge decreases in populations in today's oceans because of...

2 comments    advice food environment
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