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Flora And Fauna

Sea otters along California's central coast that habitually use rocks to crack open snails and mussels show measurably less tooth damage than otters that bite prey directly, a difference biologists documented across years of tracking 196 radio-tagged animals at Monterey Bay and four other sites

A 2024 study in Science tracking 196 radio-tagged southern sea otters in Monterey Bay found that individuals who reliably use stone anvils to crack shellfish suffer measurably less tooth damage than otters that bite prey directly — a difference that keeps them alive when their preferred prey disappears.

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Water World

What happened when a Midwestern industrial river that once caught fire in 1969 was dredged, re-oxygenated and lined with restored wetlands, and dozens of fish species returned to a channel biologists had written off as biologically dead?

Fifty-five years after the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, dissolved oxygen has returned, more than 70 fish species have come back, and juvenile lake sturgeon have been released into a channel biologists once called dead.

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