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		<title>Extinct life is like a box of chocolates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>para_sight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2012/01/extinct-life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates/">Extinct life is like a box of chocolates<div class="post-avatar" style="float: right;" ><img alt='Extinct life is like a box of chocolates avatar' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/b1d390f3accea65ab713e0738116d91c?s=64&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=PG' class='avatar avatar-64 photo' height='64' width='64' /></div></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Perverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest!</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2012/01/perverted-cannibalistic-hermaphrodites-haunt-the-pacific-northwest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Goldstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mating & Reproduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apophallation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banana slug]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a repost from my former blog The Oyster&#8217;s Garter and was originally published on March 24, 2008. I&#8217;m re-posting in honor of Kate Clancy&#8216;s &#38; Scicurious&#8216; Sex, gender and controversy: writing to educate, writing to titillate session at Science Online 2012, since this is one of the silliest bits of sex-related writing I&#8217;ve ever <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2012/01/perverted-cannibalistic-hermaphrodites-haunt-the-pacific-northwest/">Perverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest!<div class="post-avatar" style="float: right;" ><img alt='Perverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest! avatar' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/71c182e635e772d1960c8084eb82f7d9?s=64&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=PG' class='avatar avatar-64 photo' height='64' width='64' /></div></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>TGIF &#8211; Flatworm Fu&#8230; er&#8230; Mating.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adaptations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TGIF: Pictures & Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flatworms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penis fencing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly.&#8221; Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog. ]]></description>
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		<title>Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. M</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adaptations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beta diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep sea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oh the dark deep sea is frightful,   But the food not so delightful,  But since we&#8217;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 <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2011/12/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow/">Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow<div class="post-avatar" style="float: right;" ><img alt='Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow avatar' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/7ef25d7f0a53b2d304a473ccc74d0dc8?s=64&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=PG' class='avatar avatar-64 photo' height='64' width='64' /></div></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Sunday Sabbath Sexytime: Portunid Crab Mating</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2011/12/a-little-sunday-sabbath-sexytime-portunid-crab-mating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mating & Reproduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mating behavior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Portunus pelagicus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Cephalopod &#8211; Mating Mimic Moctopus</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2011/12/sunday-cephalopod-mating-mimic-moctopus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cephalopods!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ h/t to @boraz for this stunning example of the mimic octopus mating! The video was filmed just this last November in Indonesia. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2011/11/why-cyclops-shark-grabs-at-our-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>para_sight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fishing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[albino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyclops shark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven&#8217;t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a surprising recent find by a Mexican fisherman of a very special little shark.  Enrique Lucero León was fishing in the Gulf of California and caught himself a pregnant dusky shark.  <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2011/11/why-cyclops-shark-grabs-at-our-imagination/">Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination<div class="post-avatar" style="float: right;" ><img alt='Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination avatar' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/b1d390f3accea65ab713e0738116d91c?s=64&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=PG' class='avatar avatar-64 photo' height='64' width='64' /></div></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego red tide eaten alive by single-celled predator</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2011/10/san-diego-red-tide-eaten-alive-by-single-celled-predator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Goldstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dinoflagellates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lingulodinium polyedrum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Franks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GET IN MAH BELLY! These huge predatory dinoflagellates have consumed smaller bioluminescent dinoflagellates. The red tide that has lit San Diego for several weeks is ending in a microscopic bloodbath. The above photo was taken by Linsey Sala, the manager of the Pelagic Invertebrates Collection at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She writes: This image was <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2011/10/san-diego-red-tide-eaten-alive-by-single-celled-predator/">San Diego red tide eaten alive by single-celled predator<div class="post-avatar" style="float: right;" ><img alt='San Diego red tide eaten alive by single-celled predator avatar' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/71c182e635e772d1960c8084eb82f7d9?s=64&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=PG' class='avatar avatar-64 photo' height='64' width='64' /></div></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre Love Triangle of the Giant Cuttlefish</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2011/10/bizarre-love-triangle-of-the-giant-cuttlefish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adaptations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cephalopods!]]></category>
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		<title>Becoming an Ocean Scientist</title>
		<link>http://deepseanews.com/2011/10/becoming-an-ocean-scientist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientist!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katleen Robert is a deep sea ecologist and graduate student at University of Victoria who was interviewed for NEPTUNE Canada. Listen to her reasons for becoming an ocean scientist! ]]></description>
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