Look At the Drifting Jellies. Just Look At It!
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By , on March 10th, 2010 Leave a comment   Organisms, Plankton   , ,  

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo. Hat tip to Penguin Wanderings.

Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile Survive
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By , on December 11th, 2009 2 comments   Adaptations, Biology, Conferences, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Scientist!, Uncategorized   , , , , , , , , , ,  

At this year’s National Association for Biology Teachers conference, Steve Haddock from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, spoke on deep ocean habitats. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center sponsored the session on extreme environments and are now making all the videos available. Steve’s excellent and visually impressive talk is above and demonstrates the wonder . . . → Read More: Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile Survive

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Blood Belly Comb Jelly
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By , on October 22nd, 2009 4 comments   Organisms, Pictures and Movies   , , , , , ,  

Great video of a comb jelly with its silica plates that are reflecting light. These plates are aligned in rows or combs and thus the name. Comb jellies are not jellyfish. The two are in different phyla, Ctenophora and Cnidaria. The main difference is that Cnidarians have stinging cells and Ctenophores have the silica plates. . . . → Read More: Blood Belly Comb Jelly

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