Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals

An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…

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First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878

What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…

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If Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?

Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods?…

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The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)

An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- How could not think of the colossal…

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