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The world’s rarest skeleton stands on four legs once again

By Guest PostSeptember 12, 2015Natureelizabeth margulis, graveyard, imagining, instrumental music, listen to music, mohammed bin salman, new power block, quagga, saudi crown prince, south african, western power

Using cutting-edge technology, the world’s rarest skeleton – a South African extinct zebra called a quagga – has regained its missing hind limb.

The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL is nearing the end of a major project to restore 39 of their largest and most significant skeletons to their former glory. The main focus of the project, named Bone Idols: Protecting our Iconic Skeletons, has been the Museum’s quagga specimen – which is one of only seven quagga skeletons to survive globally. (more…)

Lake Erie increasingly susceptible to large cyanobacteria blooms

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2014Environmentalgae, algae bloom, amputees, andrea brandt, autonomous vehicles, eddy kovarianz verfahren, food chain, georg wohlfahrt, knee prosthesis, lake erie, phosphorus, physical attributes, quagga, uncertain effect, university of michigan, wearable robotics, zebra mussels

ANN ARBOR — Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin-producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year’s Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers. (more…)

Invasive Mussels Causing Massive Ecological Changes in Great Lakes

By Guest PostApril 23, 2011Environmentalgal production, diporeia, donald scavia, ecosystem, food web, gary fahnenstiel, great lakes, great lakes food web, huron, lake huron, lake michigan, lake superior, mary anne evans, michigan, mussels, non native mussels, quagga, silica levels, university of michigan, zebra, zebra mussels

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused “massive, ecosystem-wide changes” throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet’s largest freshwater lakes, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.

The blitzkrieg advance of two closely related species of mussels—the zebra and quagga—is stripping the lakes of their life-supporting algae, resulting in a remarkable ecological transformation and threatening the multibillion-dollar U.S. commercial and recreational Great Lakes fisheries. (more…)

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The world’s rarest skeleton stands on four legs once again

Lake Erie increasingly susceptible to large cyanobacteria blooms

Invasive Mussels Causing Massive Ecological Changes in Great Lakes