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This undated photo provided by Christopher Austin in May 2018 shows a prehensile tailed skink (Prasinohaema prehensicauda) from the highlands of New Papua New Guinea. The high concentrations of the green bile pigment biliverdin in the blood overwhelms the crimson color of red blood cells resulting in a lime-green coloration of the muscles, bones, and mucosal tissues. (Christopher Austin via AP)

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Dartmouth Mascot? Some Creatures Really Do Bleed Green

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterMay 23, 2018

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 file photo, Jenna Jambeck, an environment engineering professor at the University of Georgia, holds a plastic baggie with trash collected last fall from a clean up at Panama Beach, Fla., at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Jose, Calif. Jambeck calculates that nearly 9 million tons (8 million metric tons) end up in the world’s oceans and on the coastlines each year, as of 2010, according to her 2015 study. (AP Photo/Seth Borenstein)

Scientists: Amount of Straws, Plastic Pollution Is Huge

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterApril 20, 2018

This image provided by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in April 2018 shows observed ocean temperature changes since 1870, and currents in the Atlantic Ocean. A study released on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 suggests flobal warming is likely slowing the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, which has plunged to its weakest level on record. (PIK via AP)

Study: Global Warming Is Weakening

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterApril 12, 2018

FILE - This Oct. 26, 2016 file photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. A new study published Thursday, March 8, 2018, in the journal Science shows that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu), File

Study: Twitter’s ‘Truthiness’ Fails

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterMarch 9, 2018

This image provided by Global Fishing Watch shows fishing activity around the world in 2016. According to a study released Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, researchers found more than 55 percent of the world’s oceans are fished commercially, with five countries responsible for 85 percent of high seas fishing. Study co-author Boris Worm says the findings show that ships are obeying no-fishing zones and times, although they hover at the edges of marine-protected areas. (Global Fishing Watch via AP)

Satellites Show Fishing’s Footprint

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterFebruary 22, 2018

FILE - This Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 file photo show fall colors beginning to show along Route 209 in Reilly Township, Schuylkill County, Pa. Across the United States, 2017’s first freeze has been arriving further and further into the calendar, according to more than a century of measurements from weather stations nationwide. (David McKeown/Republican-Herald via AP)

Winter Is Later, And It’s Shorter

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterOctober 28, 2017

This Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017 photo provided by Darlene Burgess shows monarch butterflies at Point Pelee National Park in Canada. A large population of already vulnerable monarch butterflies are stuck in Canada and in the Northeast. They are late on their migration south _ they should be in Texas at this time _ because unusually warm weather delayed their flight and now winds and other factors aren't making it easy or maybe even possible to go south before the coming frost. (Darlene Burgess via AP)

Clusters of Monarchs Trapped Up North

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterOctober 26, 2017

Scientists Witness Huge Cosmic Crash That Reveals Origins of Heavy Elements

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterOctober 17, 2017

In this Sept. 1, 2017 photo, homes are submerged by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey near Freeport, Tex. It’s not just this year. The monster hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Jose and now Lee that have raged across the Atlantic are contributing to what appears to be the most active period for major storms on record. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Data Show Atlantic Experiencing Era of Monster Storms

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterOctober 6, 2017

This April 2015 photo provided by John W. Chapman shows marine sea slugs from a derelict vessel from Iwate Prefecture, Japan which washed ashore in Oregon. On Thursday, Sept. 27, 2017, researchers reported nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea creatures hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States. (John W. Chapman via AP)

Sea Critters Hitchhiked Across the Pacific on Tsunami Debris

by Seth Borenstein AP Science WriterOctober 1, 2017