The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked…
View More Echinoderms, Cnidarians, & The Gastropods That Parasitize ThemCategory: Organisms
Echinoderms & Those That Love Them Need to Hang It Up
Snail over at A Snail’s Eye View, one of the best blogs on the triple -W, casts a firm vote for the Mollusks. Snail reminds…
View More Echinoderms & Those That Love Them Need to Hang It UpEchinoderms & Those That Love Them Need to Hang It Up
Snail over at A Snail’s Eye View, one of the best blogs on the triple -W, casts a firm vote for the Mollusks. Snail reminds…
View More Echinoderms & Those That Love Them Need to Hang It UpAnother Blow to Sea Cucumbers and a New Challenger to the Ring
Ed Yong over at Not Exactly Rocket Science ha an awesome post highlighting recent research on the unique vision of mantis shrimps. At the end…
View More Another Blow to Sea Cucumbers and a New Challenger to the RingOn How Mollusks are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 3: The Radula
In general, among Mollusks, the mouth opens into a buccal cavity. In most classes of Mollusks, the buccal cavity contains a tongue called the odontophore.…
View More On How Mollusks are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 3: The RadulaOn How Molluscs are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 2
Don’t get me wrong this is pretty freakin’ sweet, but echinoderms are not the only large Antarctic sea creatures. But this is way cooler… That…
View More On How Molluscs are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 2Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Beautiful Soft Bottom
More from Deepscape… Image 61 of sandy sediments at 970m in the Faroe-Shetland Channel with stalked glass sponges (white spots top), an unidentified fish, and…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Beautiful Soft BottomOn Clearing Up The Matter That Mollusks Are Better Than Echinoderms
Sheril over at The Intersection seems to be confused about what the coolest invertebrate is. She goes so far as to call out PZ about…
View More On Clearing Up The Matter That Mollusks Are Better Than EchinodermsThe pH scale
Talk about the potential effects of ocean acidification on deep-sea corals has me wondering the case of acid rain in North American lakes. This is something we understand much better.
View More The pH scaleWill ocean acidification affect deep-water corals?
The global ocean has already taken up half of the atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by humans over the last 200 years, so the ongoing effects of climate change are dampened. That’s right, you can thank the ocean for saving the planet so far.
View More Will ocean acidification affect deep-water corals?