“There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly.” Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog. "There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly." Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog.
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  January 13th, 2012  3 comments  Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, TGIF: Pictures & Movies  flatworms, Mating, penis fencing, Reproduction By Kevin Zelnio, on January 6th, 2012 2 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, TGIF: Pictures & Movies molluscs, nudibranchs, video We agree! Love this video and artwork from a nudi fan! We agree! Love this video and artwork from a nudi fan! By Kevin Zelnio, on January 2nd, 2012 7 comments Adaptations, Fish BBC, Devil Rays, EarthFlight, Pelicans, rays, Sea of Cortez, video This is some of the awesomest footage I’ve seen in a while. Wait for the backflip near the end of the clip! This is in the Sea of Cortez and narrated by David Tennant. This clip is from the BBC YouTube channel. A new program that looks spectacular called EarthFlight, which start December 29th on . . . → Read More: A Pelican’s Eye View of Leaping Devil Rays
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity Bocas Research Station, Panama, Sea Squirts, Smithsonian, Tunicate, Urochordata 5 minutes of tunicate facts courtesy of the Bocas Research Station in Panama! 5 minutes of tunicate facts courtesy of the Bocas Research Station in Panama! By Dr. M, on December 21st, 2011 16 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Uncategorized beta diversity, Carbon, deep sea, diversity, flux, marine snow Oh the dark deep sea is frightful,
But the food not so delightful,
But since we’ve got no place to go,
Let It Marine Snow! Let It Marine Snow! Let It Marine Snow! The deep-sea floor is a patch mosaic of habitats In the late 1960’s, two marine biologists, Howard Sanders and Robert . . . → Read More: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Coral, TGIF: Pictures & Movies BBC, bbc earth, BBC Oceans, coral reefs, Diving, Fluorescence, Phillipe Cousteau, red sea From BBC Earth Youtube page: Phillipe Coustaeau and the team dive in the Red Sea, one of the warmest seas in the world. Despite the warm temperatures, coral reefs flourish with their flourescent pigmentation putting on an amazing show of technicolour. Fantastic clip taken from the BBC Oceans series. Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal . . . → Read More: TGIF – Underwater Fluorescent Disco
By para_sight, on December 2nd, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies blennies, fish, Sir David Attenborough Aside from having one of the best common names around, the Sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi, a type of über-blenny) has an extraordinary way of defending its territory against competitors. There’s not a lot of sarcasm used though; it’s pretty much straight-up aggression. When one male fringehead starts flapping his trap, I mean, giving him lip, . . . → Read More: TGIF – In Your FACE!
By para_sight, on December 2nd, 2011 7 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Tremoctopus or blanket octopus is a pelagic octopus that inhabits open water, often at great depths. The fluttery pennants of tissue that trail behind them are a defence mechanism. When attacked, they shed like a lizards tail, tangling in the face of their attacker like a newspaper on the windshield. Its an amazing adaptation . . . → Read More: TGIF – the blanket octopus
From the always epic National Geographic youtube stream. From the always epic National Geographic youtube stream. By Kevin Zelnio, on November 15th, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vents, Neptune Canada, pycnogonid, sea spider, time lapse Our friends at Neptune Canada have posted this time-lapse video on their Youtube Page. Note the zillions of sea spiders (Pycnogonids), this is a feature of the Northwest Pacific vent province, we rarely see so many pycnogonids at other vents around the world. Sea spiders, tubeworms, scaleworms, limpets and snails crawl about in a . . . → Read More: What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes
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