Marine Biology FAIL

By Miriam Goldstein, on February 7th, 2011 11 comments   Uncategorized   coccolithophores, dinoflagellates, phytoplankton, t-shirts  

Zazzle, are you saying that all phytoplankton look the SAME to you?!

Thanks, R.A.!

11 comments to Marine Biology FAIL

• Hannah Waters

  February 7, 2011 at 16:02 · Reply

  Cocco-LOL-ophore! Amiright?

  • WhySharksMatter

    February 7, 2011 at 21:23 · Reply

    I believe that hitting a girl is wrong, so I’m going to have to insist that you do it yourself for that comment.

    • Hannah Waters

      February 7, 2011 at 22:11 · Reply

      Cock-o-lol-o-4?

      • Psi Wavefunction

        February 7, 2011 at 23:27 · Reply

        Thanks, I’m renaming the coccolithophorid section of my Hacrobia chapter to that now. Let’s see if teh boss ever notices…

        PS: Hahaha. You said “cock”.

• Crabe

  February 7, 2011 at 16:17 · Reply

  Ouch, that’s a beautiful taxonomic fail!

  Taxonomic Fail Index = 130 — I think we have a winner here!
  cf. http://myrmecos.net/2010/09/09/taxonomy-fail-index/

• Hao

  February 7, 2011 at 17:11 · Reply

  To be fair, the “other products you may be interested in” all have correct pictures.

• Psi Wavefunction

  February 7, 2011 at 19:00 · Reply

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! They’re in completely different fucking SUPERGROUPS!
  My brain hurts. Poor Ehux is NOT deadly, last I checked! >.<

  Crabe, how did you calculate the divergence time? Just curious, because the phylogenetic placement of these buggers is still not entirely clear…

  (btw, the epitome of eukaryotic taxon fail is the tradition of using pictures of Chaos or Amoeba proteus in fear mongering articles about Naegleria fowlerii…)

  • Crabe

    February 8, 2011 at 14:37 · Reply

    I used the Myrmecos blog method: I’ve searched for haptophyta and alveolata in timetree of life (http://www.timetree.org/index.php) and divided it by the time of divergence of genus Homo vs Pan.

• Ron

  February 7, 2011 at 20:17 · Reply

  Wow. That’s like having a photo of a shelf fungus on a t-shirt and underneath is printed ‘I Love Kittens’

  • Molly

    February 7, 2011 at 21:32 · Reply

    I might actually buy THAT shirt

    • Knox

      February 8, 2011 at 06:10 · Reply

      You are right…it’s too cool…