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Bone-eating worms ate marine reptile carcasses
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/bone-eating-worms-dined-on-marine-reptile-carcasses
Plymouth University news: A new report has revealed that a species of bone-eating marine worm called Osedax, believed to have co-evolved alongside whales, may actually have existed during the time of the dinosaurs - this impacting upon the fossil record
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Scientists earn awards for global impact of microplastics research
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/scientists-earn-awards-for-global-impact-of-microplastics-research
A team of researchers including Professor Richard Thompson OBE, of the University of Plymouth’s International Marine Litter Research Unit, has won the Societal Impact and overall prizes in the Natural Environment Research Council’s 2018 Impact Awards
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Scientists appeal for public help with climate change technology project
As part of the EmbryoPhenomics project, researchers at the University of Plymouth are asking the public to play a role in developing cutting edge imaging technologies that will help us understand the effects of major threats to biodiversity
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Blinded by the light: the effects of urban lighting on beach bugs
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/blinded-by-the-light-the-effects-of-urban-lighting-on-beach-bugs
University of Plymouth news: A group of international scientists has developed a new method for examining the effects of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on two sandy beach crustacean species
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Sea snail shells dissolve in increasingly acidified oceans, study shows
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the University of Plymouth, UK, assessed the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on the large predatory “triton shell” gastropod (Charonia lampas)
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Coastal visitors urged to look for evidence of honeycomb worms
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/coastal-visitors-urged-to-look-for-evidence-of-honeycomb-worms
Seaside visitors are being urged to look out for evidence of a tiny marine creature this summer as part of a European research project led by Ifremer (the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) involving the University of Plymouth
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Pioneering microplastics researcher receives the 2023 Blue Planet Prize
University of Plymouth news: Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS, who led the first ever study highlighting the presence of microplastics in the ocean, has been presented with the 2023 Blue Planet Prize during a ceremony in Japan
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Plymouth scientist to chair national diving committee
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/plymouth-scientist-to-chair-national-diving-committee
Plymouth University news: Professor Jason Hall-Spencer is appointed Chairman of the National Facility for Scientific Diving Committee, the body responsible for reviewing diving research proposals submitted to the Natural Environment Research Council.
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What are pyroplastics?
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/pr-features/what-are-pyroplastics
The University of Plymouth's Dr Andrew Turner talks about pyroplastics, a recently discovered and particularly hard to spot type of marine litter
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Scientists set sail on round-the-world plastics initiative
The eXXpedition Round the World voyage set sail from the University of Plymouth Marine Station on October 8 and the crew will undertake a range of research projects developed by the University's International Marine Litter Research Unit
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