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The following is a AAAS EurekAlert public release: Among soft-bodied cephalopods, vampire squid live life at a slower pace. At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by with little oxygen while consuming a low-calorie diet of zooplankton and detritus. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 20 have found that vampire squid differ from all other...

According to Climate Central News, “It’s been 45 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, and since that time, average temperatures have been rising across the U.S. This Climate Central interactive graphic shows a state-by-state analysis of those temperature trends.” “Average temperatures across most of the continental U.S. have been rising gradually for more than a century, at a rate of about 0.13°F...

These jellyfish have no means of locomotion apart from their sails, so they are at the mercy of prevailing winds and, consequently, subject to mass-strandings on beaches throughout the world. For example, most years in the spring, there is a mass stranding that occurs along the West Coast of North America, from British Columbia to California, beginning in the north and moving south over several weeks’ time. In some years, so...