Stuart Corney

Crabeater seals (photo: Kerry Steinberner/AAD)

1/ Crabeater seals are the most abundant top predator in the Southern Ocean and probably the most numerous large wild mammals on earth. Because they live almost their entire lives amongst floating sea ice around #Antarctica, it’s difficult to count them – total population is an estimated 15 million.

New paper led by PhD student Ben Viola. We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat!
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Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants

There is so much to unpack in this article, from the ethics of de-extinction to whether a mouse is a good proxy for an elephant... but boy are the woolly mice cute
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Surge in marine heatwaves costs lives and billions in storm damage – study Floods, whale strandings and coral bleaching all more likely, say researchers, as 10% of ocean hits record high temperatures in 2023-24

The world’s oceans experienced three-and-a-half times as many marine heatwave days last year and in 2023 compared with any other year on record according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.

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