A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive Resort in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. No lascivious copulation, sneaker males, or sperm displacement observed, but cool nonetheless. Thanks Steve! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, . . . → Read More: Your Friday Cuttlefish
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By RickMac, on  September 23rd, 2011  One comment  Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Mating & Reproduction  Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow, Gettin' It On, Mating, sex By Kevin Zelnio, on September 22nd, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea alvin, EPR Chronicles For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Wednesday 11/12/2003 Tomorrow is my big day! Tomorrow I go down to the bottom of the sea in Alvin! It was quite a surprise. Breea & Karen came . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles IX
By para_sight, on September 21st, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction breeding, Cephalopod, molluscs, Nautilus, Waikiki Aquarium My colleagues Dr. Bruce Carlson – recently retired – and Marj Awai were the first folks to successfully collect chambered nautilus for display in public aquariums and then breed them. Bruce has now put together a short video documenting that project over its nearly 20 year history. As I watched it, I couldnt help but . . . → Read More: Baby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?
For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Wednesday 11/12/03 3:00 am The stauromedusae are amazing me more and more each time I look at them in the video! I think there are some genetic variations . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles VIII
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 20th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea alvin, EPR Chronicles For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Tuesday 11/11/03, 3:50am We are at 9°N latitude and the fauna here is significantly more abundant & diverse. The vents here are black smokers. The black smoke . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles VII
By Dr Bik, on September 19th, 2011 Leave a comment New Research Bacteria, DNA, genomics, marine, sequencing There’s a new paper today describing the use of very short sequences (100 base pairs long) and sophisticated computational algorithms to map out an entire genome sequence. Falling asleep yet? Ok, that technology might sound pretty cool, but for us molecular biologists it is sooo last season in the genomics world (like beige nail polish was . . . → Read More: Hot dayum, Craig Venter
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 19th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls EPR Chronicles, Plankton Tow, Sea Squirts, Tunicate For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Sunday 11/10 2:20 am Today was a little less stressful. I overslept and missed breakfast at 7:30 am & science meeting at 10:30 am. but I owke . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles VI
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 18th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls alvin, Andesite, EPR Chronicles, SeaBeam, seafloor, TowCam For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Saturday 11/08 1:30am Been a while since I made an entry. We were on station at 8°37′N and its been really busy, but real fun and exciting. . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles V
If, like me, you live in perpetual fear of being mowed down by the world’s slowest reptiles, write this number on the back your insurance card: W5922XA. That’s the code for being “struck by a turtle, initial” in a recent expansion of the medical insurance coding database, to which they’ve just added almost 120,000 new . . . → Read More: Not sure your HMO will cover that…
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 17th, 2011 One comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls EPR Chronicles For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Tuesday 11/04 10:45pm There were 2 egrets outside today. A rather rare occurrence since they occur on shores & streams as wading birds. There were a couple . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles IV
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