Scientists discover ‘jellyfish explosion’
CAPTION: Dr Andrew Brierley holding a large jellyfish on the deck of the research vessel.
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Sparks fly in National Science Week
Where do you inherit your hair colour from? What's inside your mobile phone? How does memory work? What would you look like if you had been born in the opposite sex? And, most bizarre of all, do chickens prefer beautiful humans?
Seals & whales in an industrialised world
The Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews has been awarded £381,000 by the Government's Public Sector Research Exploitation (PSRE) initiative to develop new commercial applications for its ground-breaking studies of marine mammals.
Rare arctic sightings in Moray Firth
* Caption - ringed seal spotted late last year *
Looking for Leviathans
Ever wondered how scientists estimate the number of whales and other deep sea life, or the reality behind stories of sea monsters?
What Ahab never saw
The University of St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit will showcase some of its most exciting and cutting-edge research next week at a prestigious event highlighting the best of British science.
Major survey of whales, dolphins and porpoises
Ships and aircraft will take to European waters next month as part of the largest ever international survey of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Rehabilitating piranhas
* Photo - Professor Magurran *
Protecting the protected
Marine biologists are to launch a new study into ways of protecting two protected species in Scotland - one of which feeds on the other.