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 . . . → Read More: Clearly I Need to Rethink My Business Cards
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By Dr. M, on  November 10th, 2011  3 comments  Weird  bootlegging, business card, civil war, grenadier, gunrunning, mariner, orgies, privateer, raconteur, revolutions, smuggling By para_sight, on November 7th, 2011 3 comments Fishing, Mating & Reproduction, 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, 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. The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: By para_sight, on October 10th, 2011 One comment Social Sciences, 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…
Check out this 2 ton plastinated partial whale shark dissection on display in a pedestrian shopping mall in Dalian, China: I can’t decide whether this is really cool or just flat-out bizarre. I guess it depends where the specimen came from. . . . → Read More: One for the bizarre-o files
By Dr Bik, on August 12th, 2011 2 comments Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Weird disturbing, nematodes, Reproduction, traumatic insemination Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I recently attended the Society of Nematology’s 50th Anniversary meeting, where the plenary topic was….traumatic insemination. This was the subsequent topic of conversation for the next four days. “Write a blog . . . → Read More: A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 8th, 2011 5 comments Nautical Terms and Phrases, New Research, Scientist!, Weird cussing, linguistics, Swearing like a Sailor We would be remiss at DSN if we didn’t blog about a paper that was brought to our recent attention. Warning the following material uses profanity with high frequency. Click the more button on your own risk. . . . → Read More: Expletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tists
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