… but sometimes you can. The Perennial Plate Episode 62: A day in the Life from Daniel Klein on Vimeo. Via The Atlantic: Diving for sea urchins off the coast of southern California is just another day in the life for the The Perennial Plate, a web series about sustainable food created by Daniel Klein . . . → Read More: A lot of times you don’t win by doing the right thing…
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  November 1st, 2010  Leave a comment  Books/Media, Fishing  Farallones, Harvesting, Sea Urchin, shark, Uni A fascinating 10 minute short film. Hat tip to KaylinQ. Info from the youtube account: Dir. Roger Teich / USA / 2004 Ron Elliott is the only sea urchin diver at the Farallon Islands off the coast of Northern California, where he shares the water with big Great White Sharks, which is just the . . . → Read More: Picking Urchins From the Devil’s Teeth
By Kevin Zelnio, on July 27th, 2010 One comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Fish, Natural Disaster, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Amoeba, DNA Barcoding, Fiddler Crab, Flatfish, Genetics, Hurricane, Hydrothermal Vent, mating behavior, Nova Scotia, Paramoeba, Pathogen, Sea Urchin, Symphurus, The Tide Pool, Western Pacific An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- Symphurus sp. collected from Macauley Volcano; scale is 5 cm long. Courtesy M. Clark (NIWA). The western Pacific is broken land, plates are crashing every which way creating earthquakes and volcanoes from Russian Kamchatka to New Zealand. . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Divergent Flatfish, Eavesdropping Fiddler Crabs, Hurricanes Kill Urchins
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 24th, 2010 5 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Colossal Squid, Etmopterus spinax, Heliocidaris erythrogramma, Lantern Shark, Predation, Sea Urchin, Selection, sperm, The Tide Pool An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- Oxygen consumption rates for various squids as a property of mass. How could not think of the colossal squid as a voracious hunter of the deep?? Contrary to popular opinion Rosa and Seibel argue that “… the . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)
By Peter Etnoyer, on May 24th, 2009 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction echinoderm, National Geographic, Reproduction, Sea Urchin, Sex Week, urchin sex 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… Sea urchin offspring have one of the coolest names in . . . → Read More: Are sea urchins bad parents?
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 31st, 2009 Leave a comment Carnivals & Link Love, Critters Agassiz, BibliOdyssey, Echinodermata, Sand Dollar, Sea Urchin BibliOdyssey has some beautiful plates of echinoderms from manuscripts by Louis Agassiz from the 1840s. Check out their site for more and where to go to see the full works online. Sand dollar, more or less a flattened sea urchin. For more echinoderm fun, always check out the ECHINOBLOG! BibliOdyssey has some beautiful plates of . . . → Read More: Echinodermata Monographs
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