Biology

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Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales

We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago…

Biology Coral Ecology Oil Spills Organisms

A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals

Dr. M April 1, 2011 age Arminius Augustus Battle of the Teutoburg Forest black coral Coral Germanic growth rate Leiopathes lifespan nuclear bomb testing Radiation radiocarbon dating Romans tree rings Varsus

The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…

Conservation & Environment Ecology Organisms Reviews Social Sciences

Finding Our Deep Blue Home

Kevin Zelnio March 31, 2011 Book Review Julia Whitty

If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the…

Ecology Organisms Scientist!

A 21st century view of Marine Biology

Holly Bik March 20, 2011 career computational biology cyberinfrastructure DNA marine biology Organisms sequencing

So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…

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Deep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life

Holly Bik March 10, 2011 deep sea molecular phylogeny nemtodes Organisms

Sometimes I am stunned by the vastness of the internet, as well as the brief 15-nanoseconds of fame that go along with most of its…

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Krill Sex

Dr. M February 25, 2011

Make sure you go read Hannah’s post on krill sex in the deep sea. Find out why should care about where Antarctic krill get it…

Ecology Environmental Sciences Organisms

DSN Scientist In Residence Jarrett Byrnes On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

Jarrett Byrnes February 24, 2011 Jarrett Byrnes

In my last post, I showed that ocean food webs are being re-written by human driven extinctions and invasions. In particular, most species that have…

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Tide Pool: Cephalopods, Ash, and Sulphur Are to Blame

Dr. M February 24, 2011 ammonoid anoxia Cambrian explosion coal fly ash extintion flood basalt mass extinction Organisms 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…

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Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?

Jarrett Byrnes February 18, 2011 Community Ecology diversity extinction food web Invasion Jarrett Byrnes Scientist In Residence trophic level

February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…

Evolution Social Sciences

Darwin Day Repost – Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin And His Beloved Barnacles

Kevin Zelnio February 12, 2011 Archetype Barnacle Best of Zelnio Charles Darwin Cirripedes Cryptophialus Darwin Darwin Day Erasmus Darwin evolution Hermaphroditism HMS Beagle Homology John Hooker Lamarck Mr. Arthrobalanus On the Origin of Species Richard Owen Robert Chambers taxonomy Vestiges Zoonomia

This post was based on a talk I gave for Darwin Day last year at the Duke Marine Lab. Reposting in honor of Darwin Day.…

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