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Charnia and sea pens are poles apart
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Charnia from the Ediacara biota is here examined in terms of its growth and development. The Ediacara biota comes from the critical period of evolution just before the Cambrian Explosion and is key to our understanding of the origin of animal life. We show that Charnia cannot be related to the modern cnidarian group the sea pens (Pennatulacea) with which it has for so long been compared, as generative zones cannot be homologized between these forms.
The Precambrian Ediacara biota (Ford...
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Charnia and sea pens are poles apart
Journal of the Geological Society
; Charnia from the Ediacara biota is here examined in terms of its growth and development. The Ediacara biota comes from the critical period of evolution just before the Cambrian Explosion and is key to our understanding of the origin of animal life. We show that Charnia cannot be related to the
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RURAL LIFE: FISHY TALE OF MAN WHO FARMS BY HELICOPTER.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; PAUL Murray farms off the green glens of Antrim with a boat and his contractor arrives by helicopter! As general manager of the Northern Salmon Company, the only salmon hatchery and fish farm off the Northern Ireland coast, Paul needs a boat to feed and check stock in sea pens off Glenarm just as
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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UNBALANCED ECOSYSTEM IMPERILS RICH WEB OF LIFE.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ... necessarily the case. To gauge fish stocks, Palsson has been towing nets through Puget Sound since the late '80s. Increasingly, the news is grim. About half of the Sound's fish stocks tracked by state scientists are in trouble. Since 1980, Pacific cod is down by ...
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Controversy swirls around dolphins; Activists claim they are victimized by tourist swim-along programs.(WORLD)
The Washington Times
; Byline: David Paulin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES KINGSTON, Jamaica - With their permanent smiles and playful manner, dolphins have long been the friendly creatures of the deep. But as the Caribbean gears up for another tourism season, they are being portrayed as victims, too. In a heated dispute that
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Sainsbury's to sell hiramasa.(meat & fish)(Brief article)
Grocer
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A tuna-like farmed fish grown in sea pens off the Australian coast is due to be launched in the UK by Sainsbury's this week. Yellowtail kingfish is a sustainable pelagic species that is popular in Japan, where it is eaten as sushi and known as hiramasa. It has white, firm
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Salmon do swimmingly in Maine fishery.(Food)
The Washington Times
; As the wintery blasts of cold air propel me into the warm supermarket where I try to decide which of the delectable smoked sea foods to feature with the poached salmon for a winter buffet, I recall a warm, sun-filled summer day on a farm in Maine. It was feeding time. The rattle of pellets carried
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45,000 fish die in avalanche
Evening Times
; AN AVALANCHE in a Norwegian fjord may have killed up to 45,000 farmed salmon. The salmon were being held in sea pens at the Joekelfjord Laks AS fish farm, about 800 miles north of Oslo, when the avalanche hit a week ago, said manager Arne Evensen. "I've never heard of fish being killed in an
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Atlantic Salmon Placed on Endangered Species List
The Washington Post
; Federal agencies yesterday took the unusual step of listing the once-abundant Atlantic salmon as an endangered species, after concluding that the number of wild salmon had declined below minimum levels for survival in the only U.S. rivers where they still spawn. "Without protection," said Jamie
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REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM: TESTING THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF EDIACARAN AND PALEOZOIC PROBLEMATIC FOSSILS USING MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE DATES
Journal of Paleontology
; ABSTRACT-Many of the late Neoproterozoic "Ediacaran fossils" have been referred to the Cnidaria, often on the basis of vague or poorly known features. However, representatives of the living Chondrophorina (=Porpitidae, Hydrozoa), Pennatulacea (Anthozoa), and Coronatae and/or Stauromedusae
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THECTARDIS AVALONENSIS: A NEW EDIACARAN FOSSIL FROM THE MISTAKEN POINT BIOTA, NEWFOUNDLAND
Journal of Paleontology
; ABSTRACT- The Neoproterozoic Ediacara biota at Mistaken Point contains the oldest diverse Ediacaran assemblages and is one of the few known deepwater localities, yet the biota is dominated by endemic forms, nearly all of which remain undeseribed. Thectardis avalonensis new genus and species, one of
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