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Hermit crabs find new homes in plastic waste: Shell shortage or clever choice?
Enlarge / Scientists have found that hermit crabs are increasingly using plastic and other litter as makeshift shell homes. (credit: Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty)
Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs and broken glass bottles, instead of shells.
New research by Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying these artificial shells. The photos had been uploaded by users to online platforms, then analyzed by scientists using a research approach known as iEcology. Of the 386 photos, the vast majority, 326 cases, featured hermit crabs using plastic items as shelters.
At first glance, this is a striking example of how human activities can alter the behavior of wild animals and potentially the ways that populations and ecosystems function as a result. But there are lots of factors at play and, while it's easy to jump to conclusions, it's important to consider exactly what might be driving this particular change.
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Source: Ars Technica
He's Lost His Marriage, His Followers and His Lamborghini
Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, was once the most popular cryptocurrency YouTuber in the world. Now his empire has collapsed.
Source: The New York Times
How to use the new Circle to Search tool
Seeing something on my phone screen that I want to know more about is a regular occurrence, and Google always wants to make it easier to get to, well, Google. And so we have Circle to Search, a new way of looking up information on mobile devices.
The idea is pretty simple — and in fact, simplicity is its main selling point. In a video, Samsung (which makes one of the phones that has this feature) gives the example of someone who sees an orange dog lamp in an image, and instead of running a text search describing what they're looking at, they find out they can just circle the lamp with their finger to get matches from the web.
Source: The Verge
Sources: Reddit has picked the New York Stock Exchange for its long-delayed IPO
Social media platform Reddit has picked the New York Stock Exchange as the venue
Source: Financial Times
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