Tag Archives: marine

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While performing routine maintenance on the Large Lake Observatory’s R/V Blue Heron, a marine superintendent found a mysterious goo. Microbial biologists at the University of Minnesota Duluth found that the goo was a new species of archaea that thrived in the semi-warm and anaerobic environment of the ship’s rudder housing. The …

A fossil found on Vancouver Island in 1988 looked like a typical long‑necked marine reptile, yet every expert who studied Traskasaura sandrae left with new questions. Scientists have now confirmed that the 39‑foot creature, which lived about 85 million years ago, represents an entirely new species with a hunting style never before documented in its family. “It has …