This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with
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By , on May 9th, 2011 11 comments   Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, Uncategorized, Weird   , , , , , , ,  
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James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only Pulp Fiction comes close. For dark and gritty, anti-glossy-Star-Wars sci fi realism, only Blade Runner is its equal. And no critter has ever been more terrifying than the H.R. Giger creation that debuted as a solitary . . . → Read More: This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with

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Life Without Gonads and Toes
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By , on May 21st, 2009 4 comments   Mating & Reproduction, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

The Wonderful Reproductive Cycle of Cyliophora The Loriciferans were first described in 1983 and since then around 20 species were described with at least 80 species waiting in the wings for their official names. However, Loricefera were known since the 70′s but because of there complex life cycle with a larva (Higgins-larva) that looks completely . . . → Read More: Life Without Gonads and Toes

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Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
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By , on June 30th, 2008 6 comments   Adaptations, Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s oceans in the journal Biological Invasions. Those may look like tentacles, but in reality they are the nunchuks of rapid expansion of a stealthy marine invasion. Intonjutsu: Cheating Death In . . . → Read More: Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion

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