Almost sixteen years ago, I was at phase one of Operation Convince A Tall Blond To Get With Me. For brevity, I will refer to this as The Operation. I won’t further comment on my moves during The Operation other than to say they were real smooth. Tall blond was completely in to me. At . . . → Read More: If I Was A Hagfish Could I Get With Tall Blonds?
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By Dr. M, on  November 1st, 2011  Leave a comment  Adaptations, Biodiversity  competition, Hagfish, predator, prey, slime, smooth moves, smooth operator By Dr. M, on December 1st, 2010 2 comments Cephalopods!, Ecology, Evolution, Paleobiology, Paleobiology ammonite, Cephalopod, fossil, Predation, predator New work in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society indicates that ammonites were likely preyed upon beaked squids. The Chamouth Mudstone Formation on the British Coast is famous for its ammonite fauna from 183-195 million years ago. Twenty percent of the ammonites were found to have damage toward the rear of shell. This spot . . . → Read More: Cephalopod on Cephalopod Crime
By Dr. M, on January 21st, 2010 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Uncategorized aragonite, armor, Calcium Carbonate, conchiolin, Ed Yong, Gastropod, gold foot snail, iron clad snail, iron sulfide, mantle, Military, predator, samurai, shell, Snail With an illustration this cool you know it has to be good science Behold the Samuel Jackson of snails, i.e. one bad mother It is told in the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai At the time of the attack on the castle at Shimabara, Tazaki Geki was wearing very resplendent armor. Lord Katsuhige was . . . → Read More: The Evolution of Iron-Clad Samurai Snails With Gold Feet
By Dr. M, on October 26th, 2009 Leave a comment Books/Media, Cephalopods!, Megavertebrate albatross, Antarctica, beak, Cephalopod, International Polar Year, penguin, predator, seal, Southern Ocean, stomach, whale The Cephalopod beak guide for the Southern Ocean. What everyone needs for the coffee table ..we interrupt this post so that Dr. M can perform the rare dance of the geek and squeal in delight…by Jose Xavier and Yves Cherel and published by British Antarctic Survey was published recently as a product from the International . . . → Read More: Guide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern Ocean
By Dr. M, on August 11th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish, Life Science, New Research, Uncategorized abyss, carbon cycle, detritus, echinoderm, fatty acid, food web, grenadier, lipid, macrourids, marine snow, Pacific, predator, prey, rattail, Scavenger, Station M., trophic Photo courtesy of MBARI. Coryphaenoides acrolepis in Monterey Canyon. Rattail fish are caught and sold under the more palatable name, "grenadier." However, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program recommends that consumers do not purchase or eat grenadier because the fish grow very slowly and may not reproduce until they are 30 or 40 years . . . → Read More: Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
By Dr. M, on July 30th, 2009 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate constraints, design, Double XX, evolution, phylogenetic, predator, prey, sharks, size, Wired It’s been eight days since Miriam posted at Double XX This Wired piece on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs also made me want to smash some test tubes. It’s a stunningly inane list of animal adaptations that the author thinks are weird, uncontaminated by even the most basic knowledge of evolution. And the eight days . . . → Read More: Worst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and Constraints
By Dr. M, on July 10th, 2009 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Marine Mammal, orcas, predator, seal Orca’s doing what they do best…working together to be voracious predators. Not so cute and cuddly? Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Orca’s doing what they do best…working together to be voracious predators. Not so cute and cuddly? Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Dr. M, on June 28th, 2009 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Geology, Megavertebrate, Paleobiology Age of Fishes, armor, Arthrodires, computer model, Devonian, Dunkleosteus, force, fossil, jaw, Ohio, placoderms, predator, shark Dunkleosteus skull at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History Way before even your great-great-grandpappy was born and Ohio was ocean instead of cornfields, it was the “Age of the Fishes”. During this Devonian (400-360 million years ago), the placoderms, giant, shark-like, armored fishes, ruled the oceans. Among the largest and most fearsome of these were . . . → Read More: Easy Big Fella
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