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Catharina Vendl, DVM, PhD
Wildlife Health Researcher & Science Communicator
at the University of New South Wales
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Mar 20, 20193 min read
Horseshoe crabs and their blue blood – high priced and under threat
Virtually unchanged, the horseshoe crab has existed for at least 450 million years. Having had plenty of time to perfect its immune...
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Mar 20, 20192 min read
The bacteria of happiness
Evidence is growing that Greek yoghurt doesn’t only make us fat, but also happy. Gut and brain team up For several years researchers have...
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Mar 20, 20193 min read
Seeing the invisible: Monet and UV vision
At the age of 82 the impressionist painter Claude Monet complained to a friend that everything he saw was in fog and painting had become...
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Feb 20, 20192 min read
Octopus and pufferfish – Deathly and delicious
Size-wise a blue ringed octopus could make a good pet. That’s at least what a little girl in Western Australia recently thought when...
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May 8, 20183 min read
The secret life of seabirds
Gannets, albatross and pelicans, like many other seabirds, spend most of their life out on the open ocean. The fact that they feed in...
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Apr 10, 20185 min read
Mass killing for no reason? The paradox of Soviet whaling
Japan, Norway and Iceland are the countries we usually associate with whaling. But are they really to blame for the massive decline of...
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Apr 4, 20183 min read
The fountain of youth in us
Recent studies performing blood plasma transfusions from young to old people provide hope for delaying the aging process and fighting...
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Mar 31, 20182 min read
How to count sharks
Great white sharks roam the coastal waters of Australia. How many there are nobody knew. A recent study shed light on this well kept...
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