Please enjoy this delightful piece of comment spam that we received at here at DSN. I’ve redacted the contact information but left the rest as is. Who wouldn’t trust Savy Pappy with a Fukushima reactor? I’m sending them $100,000 right now! American People, Global Community, Ladies and Gentlemen We are the Freedom consultants firm. [address]. We . . . → Read More: Amazing Fukushima-related spam
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  May 5th, 2012  8 comments  Best of, Conservation & Environment, Natural Disaster, Weird  Fukushima, Honshu tsunami, spam, tsunami By Dr Bik, on April 30th, 2012 4 comments Cephalopods!, Weird Cephalopod, Octopus, Photography, Seagull I just HAD to post this on DSN in case y’all missed Miriam’s links on Twitter. If you’re still on the fence in the vertebrates vs. invertebrates debate, this story will surely convince you of the winner (invertebrates, of course). The folks over at BirdFellow witnessed an incredible sight: an octopus EATING a seagull in . . . → Read More: Puny Seagull vs. Badass Octopus
By para_sight, on February 29th, 2012 4 comments Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Fish, Giant Isopod, Megavertebrate, Weird dolphins, flying squid, manta, minke whale, mobula, sailfish, sperm whale, tarpon, tuna, whales Please enjoy this anthology of leaping marine animals. The opportunity for this post only comes up once every four years, so it’s no wonder they’re celebrating! Mobula sp. – devil ray Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus Flying squid, Todarodes pacificus Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares Sailfish, Istiophorus sp. Manta ray, Manta sp. (Most “manta jumps” on google . . . → Read More: In honour of Leap Day
Via Reddit: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Via Reddit: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By para_sight, on December 5th, 2011 16 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 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}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… 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 31 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
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