Whale sharks (in Vietnamese: Ca Ong, literally “Sir Fish”), have been in the headlines quite a bit lately. Here’s a roundup: WA WS, OK? A whale shark was seen far from home back in January; it was around Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Now WA is home to probably the best characterised whale shark . . . → Read More: Sir Fish grabbing headlines, but it’s not all good
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By para_sight, on  February 22nd, 2012  Leave a comment  Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Fishing, Megavertebrate  Elasmobranchia, whale shark By para_sight, on February 11th, 2012 20 comments Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Critters, Fish, Megavertebrate, Opinion, Scientist! bucket list There are so many amazing aquatic species out there, it’s practically impossible for any one person to see them all, even if they dedicated their entire life to marine biology research. To that end, I reckon every good marine bio enthusiast needs a Bucket List of species to strive to see before they die. I’m . . . → Read More: What’s your marine biology Bucket List?
By para_sight, on February 8th, 2012 6 comments Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conferences, Conservation & Environment, Coral Coral Restoration Foundation, Georgia Aquarium, PERC I think it’s fair to say that when most folks think about conservation, or biology in general, money is not the first thing that pops into their heads. Indeed, many people I know in those fields consider money, commerce and economics to be somewhat foreign, a necessary evil perhaps, to keep society going and keep . . . → Read More: For sale?: one reef, well-loved
Marine biologist, photographer and documentary maker Mike deGruy was killed in a helicopter accident in Australia yesterday. TED has remembrance page here and below is one of his videos from TED recorded during Mission Blue More coverage here and here’s Mike’s website if you want to explore his work further. It’s a great loss for . . . → Read More: The passing of Mike deGruy
By para_sight, on January 31st, 2012 5 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Paleobiology, Ramblings ammonite, brachiopod, eocrinoid, fossil, Trilobite I celebrated another lap around the sun this weekend, and in honour of that my friend Betty, who lives in Arizona, sent me a rather awesome gift. It wasn’t elegantly wrapped; in fact, its contents were variously contained in a decidedly pedestrian mix of old bubble wrap, styrofoam noodles and plastic bags from Target AND . . . → Read More: Extinct life is like a box of chocolates
By para_sight, on January 20th, 2012 5 comments Biodiversity, Critters Georgia Aquarium, HBOI, reefs, sponge reefs, sponges, submersibles The other deeplings (except RickMac) are at the fantastic Science Online conference this week, meeting with other scientist communicators and hatching various plots for DSN’s ascendancy to world dominance using, I suspect, some combination of Ferragarmos, rum and giant squid tentacles. So, I guess you’re stuck with me! To wit: I made this bit of . . . → Read More: A glass more than half full of awesome
Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica. Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica. By para_sight, on January 9th, 2012 10 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, Megavertebrate, Ramblings history, Mexico, sharks, Yucatan This article is reposted from my old blog Deep Type Flow and was originally published 7/12/2010 To a recent roundup of whale shark news, I appended a sort of human interest one-liner about how “shark” is the only word in the English language that derives from a Yucatec (Mayan) Indian word – “Xoc” (pronounced like “shock”). . . . → Read More: What’s in a name? Origins of the word “shark”
All the news on the Earth's largest environment. By para_sight, on January 7th, 2012 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Megavertebrate, Opinion Arab Spring, conservation, Egypt, sharks The Arab Spring has been on of the most amazing social movements of this generation; the images of brave citizens fighting for democracy (and unfortunately sometimes losing their individual battles), are encouraging and inspiring. While far-reaching in its regional and global social and political implications, the Arab Spring would seem pretty removed from issues of . . . → Read More: Red sea sharks at risk from political upheaval, but to what degree?
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