Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living things, including humans. Tetrodotoxin is most famously known from pufferfish — ...

A recently hatched osprey chick at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve has grown big enough to become the first ever to be ringed from a second active nest on the site. The chick, now known as Blue 9K4, ...

The blue-ringed octopus may look tiny but its venom packs a punch, with tetrodotoxin being strong enough to kill 20 humans by paralysing the body and stopping the victim from being able to breathe ...

Ringing in the holidays with ringed planet Uranus Date: December 19, 2023 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual ...

Blue-ringed octopuses are small, with an arm span between 12 and 20 centimetres. They are found in coastal waters in many parts of Australia, particularly in the south-east.

The Baltic ringed seal population has increased fivefold since the 1970s when long-term overhunting and environmental toxins endangered the future of the species. A new statistical model now revises ...

The seals native to Lake Saimaa were found to be genetically distinct from other ringed seals, according to a recent study by ...

Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (RARS) is one of the various myelodysplastic syndromes. It is characterized by 15% or more ringed sideroblasts in the bone marrow, 1 increased bone ...

SAFRING bird ringer Arjen van Zwieten, EcoSolutions site supervisor Blessing Mkandawire, Owlproject.org coordinator Itumeleng ...

The planned natural heritage property includes most of the distribution area of the Saimaa ringed seal and is sufficient in size to maintain critical ecological processes and to protect key features ...

Leukemia - Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts associated with marked thrombocytosis harbors JAK2 mutation and shows overlapping myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic features ...