When I was in college, I had fish in aquarium. I repeatedly tried to train them to retrieve a beer from my dorm fridge, open…
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TGIF: Eel larvae
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…
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Happy Pride Weekend to everyone! Here in San Francisco, I’m hunkered down in the office prepping for field work in Mexico, but through my open…
View More Minorities in Ocean Sciences: The LGBT Pride Weekend Edition30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.
I’ve been on stealth mode for the past few months, in part because my workload doubled this year and I’ve been serving double duty at…
View More 30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm Whales
Get the full length video on the Whales Tohora exhibition website. Dive with a sperm whale and join the hunt for the giant squid. This…
View More KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm WhalesAssembling the Little Skate Genome
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…
View More Assembling the Little Skate GenomeWho’s your daddy?
Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access…
View More Who’s your daddy?Just a, er, quickie
If you live in central Florida and have an interest in marine life, come and hear my wife and I discuss Sex in the Oceans…
View More Just a, er, quickieRepost: Hydromedusae Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
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…
View More Repost: Hydromedusae Mounts Ninja Style InvasionA bunch of hot heads
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…
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