Sea urchin offspring have one of the coolest names in the plankton. They’re called “pluteus” larvae. Yet, according to this narrator, urchins don’t know or care for their progeny. They’re a by-product of the motion in the ocean, baby. That’s just how they roll… Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Sea urchin offspring have one of the . . . → Read More: Are sea urchins bad parents?
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By Peter Etnoyer, on  May 24th, 2009  Leave a comment  Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction  echinoderm, National Geographic, Reproduction, Sea Urchin, Sex Week, urchin sex By Dr. M, on May 22nd, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini, Mating, Reproduction, sex, Sex Week, Sundance Channel Below is all of Season 2 of Green Porno. All of Season 1 and behind the scenes videos can be seen at the Sundance Channel. Anglerfish Whale Limpet Compatibility Between Penises and Vaginas Seastars Barnacles Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Below is all of Season 2 of Green Porno. All of Season 1 and behind the scenes . . . → Read More: TGIF: Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini
By Dr. M, on May 20th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Aliens of the Deep, chemical dependence, chemical energy, cold seep, Craig Young, energy, food, food availability, food chains, food sinking, Hydrothermal Vent, James Cameron, Jon Copley, life cycle, Paul Tyler, photosynthetically-derived food, Reproduction, Seasonality, sex, Sex Week, Shrimp Post by Jon Copley. Dr. Jon Copley is a lecturer in marine ecology at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He is also director of SciConnect Limited, a company providing training in science communication and media skills. Jon is an avid deep sea explorer and studies the reproductive ecology of deep sea invertebrates, especially . . . → Read More: Sex At Vents: Lights On or Off?
By Peter Etnoyer, on May 19th, 2009 7 comments Critters, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate green turtle, mating behavior, Reproduction, sea turtle, sex, Sex Week, Wallace J Nichols Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea Turtle Network, among others. J’s blog is dedicated to new beginnings and fresh ideas, especially among young people. Green turtles mating in Sipadan, Malaysia. Photo by Petter Lindgren at Flickr. There . . . → Read More: Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on…
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 18th, 2009 2 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, New Species Anemone, Chondrophellia, Histology, Microscopy, Ova, Reproduction, Sex Week, Thin Sectioning In an upcoming paper I have in press with colleagues, we are describing 4 new species of Anemone form hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific. When taking thin sections to describe the histology of one species of Chondrophellia sp. nov. we found it chock full of ova! Photo of Chondrophellia sp nov at 100x. Containing . . . → Read More: Got Gonad?
By Dr. M, on May 18th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction Amanda Kahn, fertilization, gonad, hermaphrodite, Mating, oocyte, Porifera, Reproduction, sex, Sex Week, smoking sponges, sperm, sponge Post by Amanda “not a sponge” Kahn. Amanda Kahn is currently a masters student at well-known Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, considered to be one of the west coast’s premier marine stations. Despite still being in her masters, she is quickly becoming the “go-to” person for deep-sea sponges. Let’s start off “sex week” with the steamy . . . → Read More: “Sleezy” sponge sexuality
By Dr. M, on May 17th, 2009 3 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction breeding site, brittle star, Chris Mah, fertilization, Japan, Mating, Ophiodaphne, Reproduction, sandollars, Sea of Japan, sex, Sex Week, spawn, Tsuruga Bay A. manni, picture courtesy of C. Mah Post from Chris Mah, purveyor of all echinoderm. Dr. Christopher Mah is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and conducts reasearch on the biodiversity, biogeography, evolution, and ecology of Asteroidea. Despite his short . . . → Read More: The Sand Dollar Love Shack: A Special Echinoblog to DSN
By Dr. M, on March 19th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction dagger, fencing, flatworm, love, mate, Mating, NSFW, Penis, Reproduction, sex, sperm, sword, war, worm From the video, “It’s known as penis fencing, and the worms are the swordsmen” Potentially NSFW if having the word the penis said a dozen times over your computer speakers will cause issues. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}From the video, “It’s known as penis fencing, and the worms are the swordsmen” Potentially NSFW if having the word the penis said a dozen times over your computer speakers… By Kevin Zelnio, on June 30th, 2008 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, New Research Asexual, Ballast, Best of Zelnio, Dispersal, Genetics, Heterochrony, Hydroid, Hydromedusa, Invasion, Medusa, Phenotypic Plasticity, Polyp, Reproduction, Transdifferentiation, Turritopsis Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s oceans in the journal Biological Invasions. Those may look like tentacles, but in reality they are the nunchuks of rapid expansion of a stealthy marine invasion. Intonjutsu: Cheating Death In . . . → Read More: Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 17th, 2008 9 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Barnacle, Best of Zelnio, Hermaphrodites, Long Island, Mating, New York, Penis, Reproduction, Rocky Intertidal, Seasonality, Semibalanus, Sessile, Sex Allocation Theory, Trade-Offs, Wave Exposure Spring is in the air! Its the time of year to release your gametes into the water and make baby barnacles. But wait a second, you are a permanent fixture on a rock. Can’t move. What is a young, lovestruck sessile she-male to do? Well, if you are hung like a barnacle you don’t really . . . → Read More: Environment Shapes Barnacle Penis
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