This is a repost from my former blog The Oyster’s Garter and was originally published on March 24, 2008. I’m re-posting in honor of Kate Clancy‘s & Scicurious‘ Sex, gender and controversy: writing to educate, writing to titillate session at Science Online 2012, since this is one of the silliest bits of sex-related writing I’ve ever . . . → Read More: Perverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest!
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  January 17th, 2012  One comment  Critters, Mating & Reproduction  apophallation, banana slug, Mollusc, sex By Kevin Zelnio, on January 13th, 2012 3 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, TGIF: Pictures & Movies flatworms, Mating, penis fencing, Reproduction “There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly.” Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog. "There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly." Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog. By Kevin Zelnio, on December 18th, 2011 Leave a comment Mating & Reproduction Mating, mating behavior, Portunid Crab, Portunus pelagicus, Reproduction, swimming crab Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. By Kevin Zelnio, on December 11th, 2011 Leave a comment Cephalopods!, Mating & Reproduction indonesia, mating behavior, Mimic Octopus h/t to @boraz for this stunning example of the mimic octopus mating! The video was filmed just this last November in Indonesia. h/t to @boraz for this stunning example of the mimic octopus mating! The video was filmed just this last November in Indonesia. By para_sight, on November 7th, 2011 3 comments Fishing, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, Weird albino, cyclops shark, Gulf of Californa, Mexico, mutations, shark If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a surprising recent find by a Mexican fisherman of a very special little shark. Enrique Lucero León was fishing in the Gulf of California and caught himself a pregnant dusky shark. . . . → Read More: Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 20th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction BBC, cuttlefish, David Attenborough All the news on the Earth's largest environment. By Kevin Zelnio, on September 26th, 2011 One comment Adaptations, Fish, Mating & Reproduction Sandtiger, shark, Sibling Rivalry Came across this in a youtube search for something unrelated (I swear distraction is built into the YT search algorithm), but it reminded me of a blog post from back in the day by one of favorite bloggers, Kelsey at From Mauka to Makai, who wrote more generally about sibling rivalry but illustrated this . . . → Read More: Shark Siblingicide
By RickMac, on September 23rd, 2011 One comment Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Mating & Reproduction Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow, Gettin' It On, Mating, sex A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive Resort in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. No lascivious copulation, sneaker males, or sperm displacement observed, but cool nonetheless. Thanks Steve! A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this . . . → Read More: Your Friday Cuttlefish
By para_sight, on September 21st, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction breeding, Cephalopod, molluscs, Nautilus, Waikiki Aquarium My colleagues Dr. Bruce Carlson – recently retired – and Marj Awai were the first folks to successfully collect chambered nautilus for display in public aquariums and then breed them. Bruce has now put together a short video documenting that project over its nearly 20 year history. As I watched it, I couldnt help but . . . → Read More: Baby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?
By Dr. M, on August 17th, 2011 3 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Open Access competition, egg, oviduct, Reproduction, sex, sperm, squid All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called ostracods, sperm length can range from several hundred micrometers to several millimeters. And here is some trivia for your next cocktail party, sperm in ostracods can even be longer than . . . → Read More: There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
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