Grab the children and run for the hills! Coconut crab on a stick. Photo from Wikimedia Commons So a good friend of mine asked this weekend on Facebook what kind of crabs are the fightiest. Great question! First, for the sake of argument let us assume we’re not talking about the kind of crabs . . . → Read More: What Crabs Are The Fightiest?
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By Dr. M, on  January 9th, 2012  8 comments  Biodiversity, Invertebrate Wars  Arthropoda, Brachyuran, claw, Crab, crushing, fight, fight club, largest crab By Miriam Goldstein, on November 10th, 2011 7 comments Art, Biodiversity, Invertebrate Wars 99 percent, diversity, Invertebrate, Invertebrate Wars, Occupy, OWS This lovely piece of art, by graduate students Laurel Hiebert and Kira Treibergs with artwork by Marley Jarvis, made the rounds last week. We are thrilled to have been given permission to post it on Deep Sea News! This design is now available as t-shirts and totebags, with proceeds to benefit the Oregon Institute . . . → Read More: Octopi Wall Street!
By para_sight, on October 31st, 2011 10 comments Biodiversity, Invertebrate Wars, Megavertebrate diversity, invertebrates, OWS All the news on the Earth's largest environment. By para_sight, on October 19th, 2011 30 comments Education, Invertebrate Wars, Opinion, Weird jellyfish, sea jellies, Sea Stars, starfish, the pointlessness of trying to mandate common names 
Staring into one of the aquarium’s exhibits “I like these new Mastigias jellyfish”, I said, absently. “Sea jelly”, my colleague corrected (with a certain smugness, I might add). “I beg your pardon?” I replied. “Sea jelly. They’re sea jellies now.” “Oh, are they?” “Yes, like sea stars.” “I’m sorry?” “Sea stars.” “Jellyfish are like sea . . . → Read More: On common names
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 18th, 2011 4 comments Adaptations, Invertebrate Wars Flower Hat Jelly, Jellies, jellyfish, NEAQ, New England Aquarium, Olindias formosa Some cool pics and the video (below) from the NEAq’s Exhibit Galleries Blog on Flower Hat Jellies (Olindias formosa, one of my favs!). Head there to learn more! Some cool pics and the video (below) from the NEAq’s Exhibit Galleries Blog on Flower Hat Jellies (Olindias formosa, one of my favs!). Head there to learn more! By Dr Bik, on August 12th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, Mating & Reproduction, Weird disturbing, nematodes, Reproduction, traumatic insemination Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I recently attended the Society of Nematology’s 50th Anniversary meeting, where the plenary topic was….traumatic insemination. This was the subsequent topic of conversation for the next four days. “Write a blog . . . → Read More: A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
By Dr Bik, on June 14th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Invertebrate Wars, Microbes, Uncategorized Bacteria, climate change, human impact, jellyfish, Microbes Mufasa was right. We’re all intertwined. Whether we humans like to admit it or not, every action by a living organism on Earth has repercussions. (And yes, you can lump in viruses and prions because I’m not getting into a philosophical debate about what constitutes ‘living’). Run, Harry! You don't want to catch Irukandji syndrome!!! . . . → Read More: The Circle of Life (and how Jellyfish screw it up)
By Dr Bik, on March 10th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, New Research, Open Access Biodiversity, deep sea, molecular phylogeny, nemtodes Sometimes I am stunned by the vastness of the internet, as well as the brief 15-nanoseconds of fame that go along with most of its content. The other day I discovered the ‘Charlie the Unicorn’ videos on YouTube, after (ironically?) having a conversation with a real three-dimensional human. I was excited by this hilarity and . . . → Read More: Deep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life
For the love of God, not the mollusks! Not the mollusks! Wait a minute they are invasives. Go ahead. Game on. Here we report the first observations of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta preying on a conspicuous molluscan invader, the rapa whelk Rapana venosa. An average number of 136 opercula were found in stomach contents of . . . → Read More: Loggerhead turtles preying on snails
By Dr. M, on December 21st, 2010 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Invertebrate Wars 12 days of Christmas, Christmas, Gastropod, larvae, Radula, shell, Snail The holidays are a time for lists: shopping list, grocery list for the holiday meal, things I must accomplish before the year ends, and Santa’s naughty or nice list. In case your wondering, all of us at DSN were naughty, except for me. I’ve been more nasty nice. To these lists, I will add the . . . → Read More: The Twelve Days of Snails
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