"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
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By RickMac, on  August 16th, 2011  Leave a comment  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Coral, Evolution, Fish  zomg 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 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion Broadcast Spawn!Tweet 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 . . . → 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
Readers may recall me be posting about NESCent’s Darwin Day Road Show. Miller-McCune graciously allowed me to write up the experience for them. Please take some time and read the piece. It gives hope for the future of science in the United States. A posse of evolutionary scientists traveled to the heart of America to . . . → Read More: Scientists Take Darwin on the Road
By Dr. M, on May 8th, 2011 One comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, New Research development, Echinodermata, Phylogenetics, progensis, woodfall, Xyloplax Not your typical Echinoderm. This female specimen of a Xyloplax seastar was collected along the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of the state of Washington; it measures less than a quarter-inch (4 mm) and shows brooded embryos Some of us never grow up. In fact I am writing this now in my Aquaman . . . → Read More: Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow Up
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 5th, 2011 8 comments Editor's Desk, Education, Evolution Brunswick County, creationism, Dover, evolution, Intelligent Design, Judge John Jones, Kitzmiller A couple weeks ago I was alerted to a newspaper article from the Brunswick Beacon, serving the Brunswick County next door to me in beautiful coastal North Carolina. The school commissioners there seemed to feel that evolution was “the biggest lie that’s ever been perpetrated on mankind.” Indeed, Chairman Bill Sue is “tired of my . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Sorry Brunswick County, ID STILL Not Science
By Dr. M, on February 24th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Natural Disaster, New Research, Paleobiology, Paleobiology ammonoid, anoxia, Biodiversity, Cambrian explosion, coal fly ash, extintion, flood basalt, mass extinction, Paleobiology, Permian, Siberian Trap An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Heightened biodiversity may make an ecosystem more stabile and robust. One of the reasons for this is that high biodiversity may create redundant species, i.e. species that serve a similar ecological role in the ecosystem. A loss of one species may not . . . → Read More: Tide Pool: Cephalopods, Ash, and Sulphur Are to Blame
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