Carnival of Evolution #22 is up over at Beetles in the Bush. Check out all the naturally selective goodness! . . . → Read More: Carnival of Evolution #22
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By Dr. M, on  April 1st, 2010  16 comments  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Giant Isopod, Uncategorized, Weird  Bathynomus, body size, Giant Isopod, isopocalypse Across the internets a craze is sweeping. We here at DSN are calling it Isopocalypse 2010 (stay up to date using the Twitter hashtag #isopocalypse2010). Things got so crazy over the last two days with giant isopods that in my excitement I forgot what year it was and used #isopocalypse2011 hashtag this morning It all … . . . → Read More: Isopocalypse 2010: Giant Isopods Storm the Internets
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 1st, 2010 5 comments Adaptations, Invertebrate Wars, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Best of Zelnio, Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent, Infrared, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Radiation, Retina, Rhodopsin, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, vision *Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with temperatures reaching over 350 C, en masse in the darkness of the deep sea. It has a certain peculiarity in that its eyes are completely absent yet there is a … . . . → Read More: The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp
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