There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A 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…
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…
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…
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…
That’s right, you heard me—there are mushrooms that live in the sea. OK, well technically a mushroom is a fruiting body of a fungus with…
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures-F. Scott Fitzgerald Quirky, sheepish, fun-loving, lethargic, energetic, aloof, courageous, sensitive You might invoke these words to describe…
You may not realize that those unassuming slugs of the oceans, nudibranchs, are voracious predators in hiding. Sponges, corals, hydroids, bryozoans, anemones, barnacles, the Portugese…
Sixty two moons orbit Saturn. The sixth largest of these at just 300 miles in diameter is Enceladus named after one of the giant children,…
Mufasa was right. We’re all intertwined. Whether we humans like to admit it or not, every action by a living organism on Earth has repercussions. …
I’ve been in Brazil for the past week for some research coordination meetings. This has involved a number of different folks in several forums, but…
How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the…