That’s What Slugs Are For
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By , on August 14th, 2010 2 comments   Biodiversity, Deep Sea Music   ,  

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Sea slugs have self esteem, too
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By , on January 27th, 2010 8 comments   Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters   , , ,  

Twitter was all aflutter yesterday over a foul slandering of the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus. The culprit was an Australian article discussing these sea slugs washing up on Gold Coast beaches. Ugly, blue, slimy, venomous, bluebottle-eating cannibals. Those are just some of the words used to describe the strange sea creatures that have been turning . . . → Read More: Sea slugs have self esteem, too

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A Nudi on David’s Wood
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By , on October 1st, 2009 2 comments   Critters   , , , , ,  

David is a graduate student in my lab. He wants to know what types of animals colonize wood and whale bones in the deep sea and if we can find similar critters in shallow waters using the same substrates. He brought in some wood slabs he hung off the docks the other day and, naturally, . . . → Read More: A Nudi on David’s Wood

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