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Largely as a result of this relentless slaughter, the populations of some shark species have plummeted an estimated 80% over the past decade. "At the current rate," predicts marine biologist Merry Camhi of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, "some species will reach ecological extinction within 10 years...
...make reasonable but vague assertions like Fordham's more rigorous, for example, marine biologist Chris Lowe, a colleague of Meyer's at the University of Hawaii, has developed an ingenious way to measure the role of one shark, the hammerhead, in a well-defined environment. Every year thousands of hammerhead pups are born in Kaneohe Bay, on the east shore of Oahu. (About 40% of shark species lay eggs; the rest bear live young, and some of these carry their young just as mammals do, with an umbilical cord connecting the fetus to the uterus.) For the next 12 months...
...discussion tomorrow on "Science and Creativity" will feature several scientific fellows, including marine biologist Sylvia Earle, a Bunting Fellow from...
...present] the nightmare of a structural biologist--to see a mouse at atomic resolution," Huber said. This task is analogous to finding a needle in a hay stack...
DIED. GEORGE WALD, 90, politically engaged biologist whose research on how the eye transmits images to the brain earned him a 1967 Nobel Prize; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A proponent of "survival politics," he became an outspoken Vietnam War opponent, arms-race foe and human-rights advocate...