Browsing by Subject "biologists"

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    • 500-million-year-old sea creature unearthed 

      LiveScience.com (Panay News, March 1, 2013, on page 12)
      Scientists have unearthed a stunningly preserved arthropod, called a fuxhianhuiid, in a flipped position that reveals its feeding limbs and nervous system. Scientists have unearthed extraordinary preserved fossils of a ...

    • Biologists begin to salvage sea turtle eggs in oiled Gulf 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, July 11, 2010, on page 23)
      Biologist Lorna Patrick dug gingerly into the beach Friday, gently brushing away sand to reveal dozens of leathery, golfball-sized loggerhead sea turtle eggs. Patrick, of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, carefully plucked ...

    • Bird on brink of extinction flies over Apo Reef park 

      Virola, Madonna T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2018, on page A1-A11)
      One of the world’s critically endangered seabirds, the Christmas Frigatebird, was spotted for the first time at Apo Reef Natural Park (ARNP) in Sablayan town in Occidental Mindoro province, the third record of the species ...

    • Hmmm, there's magic in Boracay 

      Buenaflor Jr., Luis M. (Panay News, May 2, 2018, on page 8)
      It's the day after Labor Day, call it a hangover, usually, there’s still a lot of stories in the newspapers about the “working class hero”, the poor, downtrodden and exploited salaried laborer or to use the favorite term ...

    • Iloilo SEAFDEC sponsors seahorse conservation meet 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 29, 2000, on page 15)
      Let's save the seahorse. This was the eloquent message imparted by two internationally known experts on seahorse in a recent seminar here entitled "Coordinating seahorse conservation efforts in zoos and aquaria." The experts ...

    • Is climate change killing American starfish? 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, October 2, 2015, on page S3/5)
      In recent years, millions of the starfish, also called sea stars, have had their legs curl up and pull away from their bodies, breaking the animals to pieces before they turn to mush, often in a matter of days. Scientists ...

    • Locals, biologists face off over whale shark feeding 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, March 14, 2013, on page S1/11)
      Tan-awan, in the southern Philippines island of Cebu, used to be a sleepy village that never saw tourists unless they were lost or in transit. Yet now they flock there by the hundreds - to swim with whale sharks, the world’s ...

    • New species of crabs found in Mindanao 

      (Manila Standard, September 3, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      Biologists claim to have discovered a new species of freshwater crab in Mindanao, which would be added to 1,300 species of such crabs distributed throughout the tropics and subtrropics. One of the marine biologists behind ...

    • Rising temperatures kill thousands of fish 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 7, 2012, on page A23)
      Thousands of fish are dying in central United States as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 38 degrees Celsius. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed ...

    • RP in global effort to save the seahorse 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, September 11, 2000, on page B-3)
      The government-hosted, Tigbauan, Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) has also been conducting research on the seahorse. Started in 1996, the SEAFDEC AQD ornamental ...

    • Saving biodiversity at Verde Island Passage 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 21, 2018, on page A18)
      Casting a fishing line with a coral sinker and a plastic-bottle reel, children as young as 8 years old catch their next meal from the pebbled shore of Barangay San Andres here. Most of the women are at home, raising hogs ...

    • Top scientists: climate change is real threat 

      (Manila Bulletin, June 30, 2016, on page B8)
      Thirty-one of the country's top science organizations are telling Congress that global warming is a real problem and something needs to be done about it. The groups, which represent millions of scientists, sent the letter ...

    • Two international seahorse experts visit SEAFDEC AQD 

      Surtida, Augusto P. (Panay News, July 31, 2000, on page 9)
      Two international seahorse experts visited the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) headquarters recently and gave seminar titled "Coordinating seahorse conservation efforts in ...

    • WWF report: Chemical contamination in the high seas threatens ocean mammals 

      Arias, Priscila R. (The Philippine Star, December 16, 1999, on page B-13)
      Chemical contamination is linked to disease, reproductive failure and sporadic die-offs among the world's whales, dolphins and porpoises, according to a recent report from the World Wildlife Fund. "Synthetic chemicals are ...