A Pee Shanty
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By , on March 16th, 2013 10 comments   Life At Sea   , ,  

Source: Wikimedia Commons There is an ancient nautical proverb commonly passed down from generation to generation amongst members of the diving community. I do believe it goes a little something like this… “There are those that pee in their wetsuits and there are those that lie about it.” (I would actually even add a third . . . → Read More: A Pee Shanty

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A bunch of hot heads
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By , on May 19th, 2011 5 comments   Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Fish, Organisms, Uncategorized   , , , , ,  

Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so that we kids could investigate some reptilian thing warming itself on the black road surface; it was usually a fat shingleback or bombastic blue tongue, but sometimes a lovely red-bellied . . . → Read More: A bunch of hot heads

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From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries
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By , on January 24th, 2011 26 comments   Adaptations, Editor's Desk, Fish, Fishing   , , , , , , ,  

Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists in the mid-20th century. From 1833 to 1997, Stanhill (2001) calculated that the climate change science doubled every 11 years. The impact of carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean was recognized early on with measurements and . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries

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Fiddler Crabs Moult for a Breath of Fresh Air
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By , on April 13th, 2010 12 comments   Adaptations, Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Uca pugnax says, “On guard blasphemer!” Image from fiddlercrab.info. Everyone knows that all crabs moult. Its no secret. When you wear you skeleton on the outside, its difficult to find the room to grow. Every now and then crabs and other arthropods (as well as a few other phyla) shed their exoskeleton or cuticle, resorbing . . . → Read More: Fiddler Crabs Moult for a Breath of Fresh Air

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OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
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By , on June 12th, 2009 2 comments   Adaptations, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, Organisms   , , , , , , , , ,  

It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston and Guinness. Your only source of food, what little you get, is far from fresh and may have passed through the rectum of more than one animal. If you are . . . → Read More: OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair

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