The biggest animals of their kind often generate headlines, but these record-holders can also tell us a lot about an animal's biology.
The synthesis of carbon onions in the laboratory by various methods is common; however, naturally occurring carbon onions have only been found in a few geological samples on Earth. This study used high-resolution transmission electron microscopy to identify natural carbon onions in seven intrusion-aff...
which measures less than an inch, to the colossal whale shark, the largest fish in the world. Here are the top 10 largest fish species in the world’s oceans by body length. You can also see the prehistoric giants’ sizes (includingmegalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, and Leedsi...
"Chinook are known for being the largest Pacific salmon and they are highly valued because they are so large," said lead author Jan Ohlberger, a research scientist in the UW's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. "The largest fish are disappearing, and that affects subsistence and recreati...
the world's only exclusively freshwater seal. Scientists are unsure how the nerpa came to Lake Baikal and evolved, but they suspect the seals might have swum down a prehistoric river from the Arctic, according to LakeBaikal.org. Other endemic species include the oily, scaleless golomyanka fish...
Related articlePrehistoric sea cow was eaten by a croc and a shark, newly discovered fossil reveals But unraveling what Arthropleura’s head looks like solves a key mystery, said James C. Lamsdell, associate professor of geology at West Virginia University in arelated articlethat appeared in Sci...