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
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By Dr Bik, on  March 10th, 2011  One comment  Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, New Research, Open Access  Biodiversity, deep sea, molecular phylogeny, nemtodes 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
They tamed the wild jelly and are now training mass armies of crustaceans to overthrow the molluscan oligarchy. Fear the claw and sting. Fear it! Hat tip to Peter E. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}They tamed the wild jelly and are now training mass armies of crustaceans to overthrow the molluscan oligarchy. Fear the claw and sting. Fear it! Hat tip to Peter E…. By Kevin Zelnio, on May 16th, 2010 One comment Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Invertebrate Wars Blue Crab, Clam, Invertebrate Wars This poor clam can rest assured that I had my fill of blue crab this weekend with my family in Ocracoke. Did you know crab is awesome for breakfast, lunch dinner and anywhere in between?? What makes the crab in Ocracoke even better is that it is all locally caught by hard working fishermen who . . . → Read More: Blue Crab vs Clam
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 1st, 2010 7 comments Adaptations, Invertebrate Wars, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Best of Zelnio, Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent, Infrared, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Radiation, Retina, Rhodopsin, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, vision Rimicaris exoculata, from this Japanese website (click image) *Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with temperatures reaching over 350 C, en masse in the darkness of the deep sea. It has a certain peculiarity in that its . . . → Read More: The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp
By Miriam Goldstein, on March 15th, 2010 3 comments Invertebrate Wars fashion, Lady Gaga, lobster, Spiny Lobster Every palinurid‘s secret ambition is to be sparkly and aboard Lady Gaga. But if Lady Gaga were REALLY hardcore, she would have tiny sparkly Cycliophorans on the sparkly lobster’s sparkly mouthparts. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Every palinurid‘s secret ambition is to be sparkly and aboard Lady Gaga. But if Lady Gaga were REALLY hardcore, she would have tiny sparkly Cycliophorans on the sparkly lobster’s sparkly… By Kevin Zelnio, on March 12th, 2010 2 comments Art, Invertebrate Wars #invwars, Arthropoda, Crab, Crustacea They get huge! And can take down a frikkin house! Also, dey vill piiiiiiiiinch yooooo!!!! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}They get huge! And can take down a frikkin house! Also, dey vill piiiiiiiiinch yooooo!!!! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet I was EXTREMELY shocked that my beloved urochordates were not included in the rekindling of the invertebrate wars. I am compelled to defend their honor by reposting this rousing defense, originally published on the Oyster’s Garter. I’ve transferred my studies to the open ocean and no longer study benthic tunicates, but out in the . . . → Read More: Repost from TOG: Urochordata! Urochordata! Rah! Rah! Rah!
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 10th, 2010 8 comments Bringin' It, Invertebrate Wars Arthropoda, Google Fight, Invertebrate Wars, Mollusca Sam over at Oceanographer’s Choice knows what is up. There really is no way anything other than a member of the Arthropoda could even be considered the most awesomest invert on the scene. I mean there is a WHOLE BLOG on Arthropoda full of awesomsauce. I don’t see a Mollusca blog out there… Just sayin’. . . . → Read More: Even Tiny Copepods Are More Awesome Than a Slimey Mollusc
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