In 1899 a French zoologist named Edouard Chevreux with an inordinate fondness for crustaceans officially described two crustaceans from the deepest parts of the ocean. Over 100 hundred years later, scientists have collected less than two dozen specimens of this enigmatic shellfish, shocking given that is largest species of amphipod ever known. Within Crustacean . . . → Read More: The Large But Enigmatic Supergiant
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By Dr. M, on  February 12th, 2012  One comment  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Giant Isopod  Alicella gigantea, Amphipod, body size, deep sea, Edouard Chevreux, French, Gigantism, supergiant, Trench By Dr. M, on July 18th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Critters, Megavertebrate body size, crocodile, giant At 70-80 years old, Brutus is an 18-foot long croc. He’s tougher than nails with a missing leg due to a fight with a shark and missing teeth from eating wild boars. But Brutus is not the biggest croc in these waters. That goes to his 20-foot brother, Dominator. So tonight raise your glass . . . → Read More: Brutus the Giant Saltwater Croc
By Dr. M, on January 30th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods! Architeuthis, body size, Giant Squid, mantle, Predation, Reproduction, siphon, squid In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe or admiration or wonder) “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to . . . → Read More: From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 26th, 2010 Leave a comment Fish, New Research body size, fish, research blogging, researchblogcast, Trophic Ecology Each week Dave Munger, Razib Khan and I discuss a recent paper from ResearchBlogging.org. This week was my turn to choose and we discussed the following recent paper: Shackell, N., Frank, K., Fisher, J., Petrie, B., & Leggett, W. (2009). Decline in top predator body size and changing climate alter trophic structure in an oceanic . . . → Read More: ResearchBlogCast #4: Decreasing Predator Size Increases Prey Numbers
By Dr. M, on April 1st, 2010 16 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Giant Isopod, Uncategorized, Weird Bathynomus, body size, Giant Isopod, isopocalypse Across the internets a craze is sweeping. We here at DSN are calling it Isopocalypse 2010 (stay up to date using the Twitter hashtag #isopocalypse2010). Things got so crazy over the last two days with giant isopods that in my excitement I forgot what year it was and used #isopocalypse2011 hashtag this morning It all . . . → Read More: Isopocalypse 2010: Giant Isopods Storm the Internets
By Dr. M, on March 7th, 2010 9 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Cephalopods!, Invertebrate Wars, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction aplacophora, Arthropoda, Bernoulli, body size, echinoderms, Gastropod, Invertebrate, Invertebrate Wars, logarithimic spiral, Mollusc, Radula, shell, Vampire Squid A blog war is starting to develop again. No I am not talking about this one. I am talking about the Great Invertebrate Wars. Everything was quiet until someone had to stir the pot. GIW I took many causalities with molluscs taking the clear win. Which invertebrate group will take GIW II? If polls are accurate, and like . . . → Read More: Molluscs, now with 100% more awesum
By Dr. M, on January 5th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Antarctica, Arthropoda, body size, Buddha nature, Crustacea, digestive tract, diversity, gonad, organs, proboscis, pycnogonid, respiration, sea spider “Pet” Giant Pycnogonid attacking computer. Much of the earth’s biodiversity lies within the phylum Arthropoda. You are probably aware of many species within the group trilobites, spiders, centipedes, crabs, insects, lobsters, and whole other mélange of strange beasties. Throw a crab and you are likely to hit another arthropod. Scratch that as I cannot condone the . . . → Read More: Pycnogonids, more than spiders of the sea
By Dr. M, on November 30th, 2009 8 comments Adaptations, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, New Research allometric, Blue Whale, body size, constraints, evolution, feeding, isometric, lunge feeding, mass, RB Editor's Selection, whales The largest, Blue Whale and smallest, Hector Dolphin, cetaceans. From wikimedia commons The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger? The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling. To appreciate how massive a blue whale is, consider it would take 15 school buses, around 10 tons in weight . . . → Read More: Why Are There No Super Whales?
By Dr. M, on June 15th, 2009 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Giant Isopod, Life Science, Megavertebrate, New Species, Ramblings, Scientist! Biodiversity, Blue Whale, body size, cell membranes, deep sea, Duke, Giant Isopod, Giant Squid, islands The Duke Research site this month features my answers to five questions about ocean biodiversity, body size variation, blue whales, municipal water supplies, giant squids, cell membranes, giant isopods, islands, Victorian science, and of course the deep sea. Yeah I cover a lot. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}The Duke Research site this month features my answers to five questions about ocean biodiversity, body size variation, blue whales, municipal water supplies, giant squids, cell membranes, giant isopods, islands,… |
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