However, direct microscopic analysis revealed ciliated protozoa identified as Balantidium coli. B. coli is the only known pathogenic ciliate, and is usually associated with intestinal infection in ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this ground-breaking four ...

ANALYSIS of mixed cultures of nutritional mutants has revealed the presence of new types which strongly suggest the occurrence of a sexual process in the bacterium, Escherichia coli.

Past climate changes in Earth's history have been accompanied by very large sea level changes. Just think of the Ice Ages that our planet has repeatedly gone through over the past two million ...

Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tyra M. Campbell/U.S. Navy The risk of a military confrontation in the South China Sea involving the United States and China could rise significantly in the ...

As a former fisherman and now a fishmonger, Neel Abesinghe has made a living, and fed his family, from the sea for 25 years. The seas around Sri Lanka are rich with marine life, thanks to its ...

Creating a Spatial Map of the Sea: New Research Visualizes How Fishing Communities Can Change Fishing Habits to Adapt to Climate Change Oct. 21, 2024 — In a massive research project spanning ...

Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits: living mazes of hard coral, sponges, and sea fans circled by schools of fish, some of them orange roughy ...

Seawater is known for being quite salty. Salt in the sea, or ocean salinity, is mainly caused by rain washing mineral ions from the land into water. Carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into rainwater, ...

Researcher Works to Preserve the White Shark in the Mediterranean Sea Oct. 22, 2024 — Biologists are working to save one of the most endangered white shark populations on the planet. The ...

Look at this creature. It's a type of slug that lives in the sea. It's a wonderful colour. It's called a Spanish dancer. The Spanish dancer sways around in the water a bit like a dancing lady.