This article is reposted from my old blog Deep Type Flow and was originally published 7/12/2010 To a recent roundup of whale shark news, I appended a sort of human interest one-liner about how “shark” is the only word in the English language that derives from a Yucatec (Mayan) Indian word – “Xoc” (pronounced like “shock”). . . . → Read More: What’s in a name? Origins of the word “shark”
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By para_sight, on  January 9th, 2012  10 comments  Archaeology, History, and Art, Megavertebrate, Ramblings  history, Mexico, sharks, Yucatan By para_sight, on November 11th, 2011 Leave a comment Fish, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies angelfish, Gulf of California, manta ray, Mexico I just wanted to share some nice footage from Mexico showing a group of clarion agenlfish (Holacanthus clarionensis) cleaning a manta ray that comes within sight of their home reef. It shows that Labroides isn’t the only important cleaner fish, especially when it comes to big pelagics. Clarion angels are listed by IUCN as vulnerable, largely . . . → Read More: TGIF – a clarion call for manta rays
By para_sight, on November 7th, 2011 3 comments Fishing, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, 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 July 13th, 2011 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, Megavertebrate, New Research Caribbean, Georgia Aquarium, georgia tech, Mexico, mote, Smithsonian, whale shark It’s getting to that time of year again. It’s hot here in Atlanta, and really hot down in Mexico, where, in between the tropical storms and occasional hurricanes, dog days are settling over the Yucatan Peninsula. It’s also the time when whale sharks begin to gather in big numbers off the coast, not far from Cancun. . . . → Read More: Spotting the difference between whale sharks
By para_sight, on April 29th, 2011 14 comments Megavertebrate, New Research, Open Access, Uncategorized Caribbean, Georgia Aquarium, Mexico, Project Domino, whale shark 
*Ed. Note: Al’s post was selected by the staff at PLoS One as the April Blog Pick of the Month! Awesome Job Al! – KAZ (Oh boy, have I been looking forward to writing this post! This one is 2 years in the making) Like a lot of biologists, I get to see some really . . . → Read More: Inside the Outside
By Dr. M, on July 11th, 2010 5 comments Adaptations, Fish, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, New Research adaptation, behaviour, fish, Mexico, molly, moustache, Poeciliidae, sexual selection, trait From Schlupp, I., Riesch, R., Tobler, M., Plath, M., Parzefall, J., & Schartl, M. (2010) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Straight men let’s face it. We will do anything if we think females will find it attractive. No matter how ludicrous, expensive, or time-consuming it may be, we will do it. The rise of mullets . . . → Read More: 70’s Porn Staches and the Female Fish Who Love Them
By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls deep sea, East Pacific Rise, Felipe Calderon, Guaymas Basin, Hydrothermal Vent, marine sanctuary, Mexico President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas including Mexico’s first deep sea marine protected area, the Guaymas Basin and Eastern Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents Sanctuary, protecting 360,000 acres of deep-sea habitats. President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas including Mexico’s first deep sea marine protected area, the Guaymas Basin and Eastern Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents Sanctuary, protecting 360,000 acres of deep-sea habitats. By Peter Etnoyer, on July 14th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vent, Marine Protected Area, Mexico From the MPA News: In June, Mexico designated its first deep sea marine protected area around two hydrothermal vent systems in the Gulf of California and the Eastern Pacific Rise. The newly designated Guaymas Basin and Eastern Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents Sanctuary covers 1456 km2 of benthic habitat, as well as the portion of the . . . → Read More: New MPAs in Mexico protect vents, whale sharks
By Peter Etnoyer, on August 5th, 2008 8 comments Conservation & Environment conservation, manglares, mangroves, Mexico, ocean, revolution, sea turtle, seafood Think of an aquatic habitat as far away from the deep-sea as you can get without coming up on land, and we will find a connection to the deep-sea. River rock = settlement substrate. Kelp forest = urchin food. Beaches = spawning grounds for tuna food. Mangroves = seafood … food. Bumper stickers in the Carolinas say it best – “no wetlands, no seafood.” . . . → Read More: Making that deep-sea connection to mangroves
By Peter Etnoyer, on October 19th, 2007 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment fishery, Mexico, sea turtles Industrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries. . . . → Read More: Loggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fishery
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