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By para_sight, on  December 5th, 2011  15 comments  Cephalopods!, Fish, Megavertebrate, Mining, Vessels and Equipment, Weird  oil rigs, ROV, sharks, whales The following images came across my desk last week humorously labeled “There’s something wrong with the ROV”. The startling shots show what appears to be an unfortunate mako shark that has become entangled in the mechanics of a large ROV [remotely operated vehicle] #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; . . . → Read More: Animals Vs. Equipment
By para_sight, on November 17th, 2011 18 comments Biodiversity, Fish, New Research, Weird hawaii, shark, Shark Attack, swimming Field Museum scientist Josh Drew recently brought to my attention a new and unusual paper describing a world first. The manuscript by Randy Honebrink and co-authors in Pacific Science describes the first documented attack on a living human by a cookiecutter shark, Isistius sp., and it’s quite an eye-opener. Cookiecutters are relatively tiny sharks . . . → Read More: The real cookie monster
By Dr. M, on November 10th, 2011 3 comments Ramblings, Weird bootlegging, business card, civil war, grenadier, gunrunning, mariner, orgies, privateer, raconteur, revolutions, smuggling Redditor burt_flaxton writes: “Friend’s Father Died – They found these after. He must have handed them out to the women at bars.” In related news, the Most Interesting Man In The World is dead. From the Daily What Redditor burt_flaxton writes: “Friend’s Father Died – They found these after. He must have handed them out to the women at bars.” In related news, the Most Interesting Man In The World is dead. 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 para_sight, on October 19th, 2011 30 comments Education, Invertebrate Wars, Opinion, Weird jellyfish, sea jellies, Sea Stars, starfish, the pointlessness of trying to mandate common names 
Staring into one of the aquarium’s exhibits “I like these new Mastigias jellyfish”, I said, absently. “Sea jelly”, my colleague corrected (with a certain smugness, I might add). “I beg your pardon?” I replied. “Sea jelly. They’re sea jellies now.” “Oh, are they?” “Yes, like sea stars.” “I’m sorry?” “Sea stars.” “Jellyfish are like sea . . . → Read More: On common names
see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst. see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst. The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: By para_sight, on October 10th, 2011 One comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Megavertebrate, Vessels and Equipment, Weird great white sharks, Mir, salvage, sharks, submarine, submersible, treasure On Friday I had cause to meet with a gent called Marco Flagg and it turned into one of the more interesting chats I’ve had in a long time. Marco is the chief engineer of a company called Desert Star that makes a range of navigation and tracking products, one of which we’ve been using . . . → Read More: Of great whites and great depths
If, like me, you live in perpetual fear of being mowed down by the world’s slowest reptiles, write this number on the back your insurance card: W5922XA. That’s the code for being “struck by a turtle, initial” in a recent expansion of the medical insurance coding database, to which they’ve just added almost 120,000 new . . . → Read More: Not sure your HMO will cover that…
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