No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong…
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Squid Cuts Body of Sexual Partner
Yeah, squids are freaky…real freaky freaks. An article over at Practical Fish Keeping details the work of recent PhD Henk-Jan Hoving. His dissertation makes mine…
View More Squid Cuts Body of Sexual PartnerTGIF: Pistol Shrimp
Wicked cool. Hat tip to the Crust-L.
View More TGIF: Pistol ShrimpVirgin Shark Birth
Jennifer Viegas over at Born Animal has a story about virgin animal births (called Parthenogensis) and a video of sharks mating! There was a report…
View More Virgin Shark BirthFriday Deep Sea Picture: The Extensible Anglerfish
I found this interesting picture illustrating how extensible the belly of the anglerfish is. They gulp more than their share in body weight! Quite a…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture: The Extensible AnglerfishNever Let Dolphins Watch Flipper
Now EVERY dolphin is going to be tail-walking on the water. Remember the moonwalk phenomenon in the 80s?? Yeah, you thought that was bad? Well,…
View More Never Let Dolphins Watch FlipperRobofish
Robotic sea bream from researchers at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Go to the Pink Tentacle to get the full story!
View More RobofishTGIF: Genius Octopus Editionus
Why are we encouraging this behavior!! Doesn’t everyone know that in the future they will rise out of the oceans to destroy us????
View More TGIF: Genius Octopus EditionusFloundermania!
In case you have been sleeping all day, flounders have been flopping all over the place! The maestro of science story-telling, Carl Zimmer, has produced…
View More Floundermania!Friday Deep Sea Picture: Ninja Hydromedusa!
From National Geographic’s new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Photograph by Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures.…
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