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By Dr. M, on  February 12th, 2012  Leave a comment  Education, Evolution  Darwin Day Road Show, evolution, outreach, Science Outreach By Dr. M, on February 12th, 2012 One comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Giant Isopod Alicella gigantea, Amphipod, body size, deep sea, Edouard Chevreux, French, Gigantism, supergiant, Trench In 1899 a French zoologist named Edouard Chevreux with an inordinate fondness for crustaceans officially described two crustaceans from the deepest parts of the ocean. Over 100 hundred years later, scientists have collected less than two dozen specimens of this enigmatic shellfish, shocking given that is largest species of amphipod ever known. Within Crustacean . . . → Read More: The Large But Enigmatic Supergiant
By Dr Bik, on January 10th, 2012 5 comments Evolution, New Research adaptation, evolution, Gene, genomics, natural selection, plants, seagrasses I seem to develop these weird, unfounded hatreds of various things. For example: I hate blue dinnerware. Not every shade of blue dinnerware (I LOVE prussian blue glassware), but I severely dislike those particular gray-blue shades reminiscent of country Americana. I can’t explain it–the mere sight of plates like these makes me angry. I would . . . → Read More: I hate plants, but seagrasses are awesome
By para_sight, on November 21st, 2011 2 comments Evolution, Megavertebrate, New Research Bioengineering, Caretta, Chelonia, georgia tech, locomotion, reptiles, sea turtles [This is a repost originally published at my old blog, DeepTypeFlow] A grain of sand represents many things to a baby turtle. While still within the egg, sand represents a roof over your head, protection from the desiccating sun and from predators, and a blanket to keep you warm and level until its your turn . . . → Read More: To see the world in a grain of sand – movement from a turtle hatchling’s perspective
By RickMac, on August 16th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Coral, Evolution, Fish zomg "La La La La….Nothing to see here!" CREDIT: Brooker, et al., Coral Reefs, Sept. 2011 After reading a recent paper in the journal Coral Reefs on the ability of Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) to masquerade as branching stony coral (abstract only), two facts are inescapable: 1) Evolution freakin’ rocks! 2) Vertebrates are just invertebrate wannabe’s. . . . → Read More: Invertebrate Wannabe
By Dr. M, on July 15th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Evolution, Geology, Paleobiology, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Cambrian explosion, Disparity, diversity Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion By Dr. M, on July 1st, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Fish, Mating & Reproduction eels, larvae, Leptocephalus The larvae of eels and other related species are called small heads or in the fancier Greek, Leptocephalus. The video above should give you some insight into this moniker. Unlike fish larvae, Leptocephali can grow quite large from a few inches to well over a foot in length. Also unlike fish larvae, Leptocephali do . . . → Read More: TGIF: Eel larvae
By Dr Bik, on May 28th, 2011 3 comments Evolution, Fish, New Research DNA, genome, Little Skate, model organism This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program from the National Center of Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. As the title suggests, we’re looking at real data from the genome project . . . → Read More: Assembling the Little Skate Genome
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 22nd, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Conservation & Environment, Evolution Preface: After several beers at DSN central. Dr. M and I decided this needed to be reposted. Don’t ask questions. Just read it and enjoy Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s oceans in the journal Biological . . . → Read More: Repost: Hydromedusae Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
By para_sight, on May 19th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Fish, Megavertebrate, Uncategorized manta, Metabolism, physiology, rays, shark, tuna Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so that we kids could investigate some reptilian thing warming itself on the black road surface; it was usually a fat shingleback or bombastic blue tongue, but sometimes a lovely red-bellied . . . → Read More: A bunch of hot heads
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