Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  December 18th, 2011  Leave a comment  Mating & Reproduction  Mating, mating behavior, Portunid Crab, Portunus pelagicus, Reproduction, swimming crab By Kevin Zelnio, on December 11th, 2011 Leave a comment Cephalopods!, Mating & Reproduction indonesia, mating behavior, Mimic Octopus h/t to @boraz for this stunning example of the mimic octopus mating! The video was filmed just this last November in Indonesia. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}h/t to @boraz for this stunning example of the mimic octopus mating! The video was filmed just this last November in Indonesia. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By para_sight, on November 7th, 2011 3 comments Fishing, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, Weird albino, cyclops shark, Gulf of Californa, Mexico, mutations, shark If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’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. . . . → Read More: Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
By Miriam Goldstein, on October 23rd, 2011 3 comments Ecology, Microbes bioluminescence, dinoflagellates, Lingulodinium polyedrum, Noctiluca, Peter Franks, Predation, red tide, Scripps 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 . . . → Read More: San Diego red tide eaten alive by single-celled predator
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 20th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction BBC, cuttlefish, David Attenborough Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Kevin Zelnio, on October 16th, 2011 Leave a comment Ecology, Scientist! deep sea, Ecology, Katleen Robert, Neptune Canada 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! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}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! Broadcast… By Miriam Goldstein, on September 27th, 2011 100 comments Ecology, Microbes, Scientist! bioluminescence, bioluminescent, Lingulodinium polyedrum, Peter Franks, phytoplankton, red tide, Scripps Dr. Peter Franks This is a guest post modified from two emails by professor of biological oceanography Peter Franks, reprinted here with his permission. Peter is a phytoplankton ecologist who studies how the physical processes in the ocean influence the growth and distribution patterns of phytoplankton, so he’s often the go-to guy on red tides. . . . → Read More: The San Diego red tide: FAQ from Scripps professor Dr. Peter Franks
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 26th, 2011 One comment Adaptations, Fish, Mating & Reproduction Sandtiger, shark, Sibling Rivalry Came across this in a youtube search for something unrelated (I swear distraction is built into the YT search algorithm), but it reminded me of a blog post from back in the day by one of favorite bloggers, Kelsey at From Mauka to Makai, who wrote more generally about sibling rivalry but illustrated this . . . → Read More: Shark Siblingicide
By RickMac, on September 23rd, 2011 One comment Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Mating & Reproduction Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow, Gettin' It On, Mating, sex A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive Resort in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. No lascivious copulation, sneaker males, or sperm displacement observed, but cool nonetheless. Thanks Steve! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, . . . → Read More: Your Friday Cuttlefish
By para_sight, on September 21st, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction breeding, Cephalopod, molluscs, Nautilus, Waikiki Aquarium My colleagues Dr. Bruce Carlson – recently retired – and Marj Awai were the first folks to successfully collect chambered nautilus for display in public aquariums and then breed them. Bruce has now put together a short video documenting that project over its nearly 20 year history. As I watched it, I couldnt help but . . . → Read More: Baby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?
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