By Eric Schwaner via DeviantArt Warning: This post is rated PG-13 and is safe for work, but contains links to NSFW adult-only content. Click at your own risk. Most marine scientists remain blissfully unaware of the existence of tentacle-themed pornography, which originated from Japan. The paths of people who work with real life tentacle-creatures and . . . → Read More: Interview: New anthology of tentacle porn reaches for marine conservation
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  February 2nd, 2012  4 comments  Books/Media, Cephalopods!  Books, Cephalopod, Human-Nature Interaction, Porn, Reproduction, sex, Tentacle By Kevin Zelnio, on January 13th, 2012 3 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, TGIF: Pictures & Movies flatworms, Mating, penis fencing, Reproduction “There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly.” Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog. "There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly." Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog. By Kevin Zelnio, on December 18th, 2011 Leave a comment Mating & Reproduction Mating, mating behavior, Portunid Crab, Portunus pelagicus, Reproduction, swimming crab Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. Hat tip DSN YouTube archivist Chris M. I love the ominously dramatic music as they bury themselves in the mud while getting it on. By Dr. M, on August 17th, 2011 3 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Open Access competition, egg, oviduct, Reproduction, sex, sperm, squid All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called ostracods, sperm length can range from several hundred micrometers to several millimeters. And here is some trivia for your next cocktail party, sperm in ostracods can even be longer than . . . → Read More: There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
By Dr Bik, on August 12th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, Mating & Reproduction, Weird disturbing, nematodes, Reproduction, traumatic insemination Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I recently attended the Society of Nematology’s 50th Anniversary meeting, where the plenary topic was….traumatic insemination. This was the subsequent topic of conversation for the next four days. “Write a blog . . . → Read More: A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
By para_sight, on May 28th, 2011 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, New Research, Open Access Genetics, Reproduction, whale shark Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access – w00t!) paper in Endangered Species Research. In it, they continue the analysis of embryos collected from a heavily pregnant female first reported by Joung et al. (1996) in a . . . → Read More: Who’s your daddy?
By Dr. M, on January 30th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Cephalopods! Architeuthis, body size, Giant Squid, mantle, Predation, Reproduction, siphon, squid In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe or admiration or wonder) “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to . . . → Read More: From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce
By Dr. M, on November 2nd, 2009 2 comments Cephalopods!, Mating & Reproduction Cephalopod, fitness, Graneledone, hectocotylus, microsattellite, Octopus, Paternity, R Kelley, Reproduction, Same Girl, sperm, Usher Greneledone boreopacifica….Are you my daddy? Image from wikimedia commons Yo Ush, What up Kels Wanna introduce you to this girl, think I really love this girl, Yeah? Man she so fine, Straight up dawg? She stand about 5’4” coke cola red bone, Damn She drives a black Durango license plate say “Angel” tattoo on her . . . → Read More: Same Girl
By Dr. M, on October 19th, 2009 8 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Aerosmith, Disney, gonads, hermaphrodite, Madonna, protandric, Reproduction, sex, whale, Whale Fall Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we let our hair down, well not me per se but other scientists with hair, and do all three. 90% of science is grouping, naming, and plotting. If you don’t know . . . → Read More: Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?
By Dr. M, on July 13th, 2009 2 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, Paleobiology Cretaceous, Crustacea, female, intercourse, male, ostracode, Paleobiology, Reproduction, sex, sperm From Matzke-Karasz et al. 2009. A. Zenker Organ, a specialized organ modified from the vas deferen that serves asa pump for giant sperm. B&C The heavily coiled giant sperm with anteriour (an) and posterior (po) ends shown. Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly . . . → Read More: 100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
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