What’s In Your Stomach?
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With Mardi Gras recently passing, I was privileged to partake of a King Cake graciously offered by a coworker.  Originally European in tradition, the riche brioche-style cake is now also popular along the Gulf coast. King Cakes are recognizable from nearly 3 miles away by the patches of green, purple, and gold sugar that top . . . → Read More: What’s In Your Stomach?

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TGIF – Battle Scars: Dubstep Great White
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The real cookie monster
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Field Museum scientist Josh Drew recently brought to my attention a new and unusual paper describing a world first.  The manuscript by Randy Honebrink and co-authors in Pacific Science describes the first documented attack on a living human by a cookiecutter shark, Isistius sp., and it’s quite an eye-opener.  Cookiecutters are relatively tiny sharks . . . → Read More: The real cookie monster

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Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
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If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a surprising recent find by a Mexican fisherman of a very special little shark.  Enrique Lucero León was fishing in the Gulf of California and caught himself a pregnant dusky shark.  . . . → Read More: Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination

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The friendly shark
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The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

PETA, Still Consistent in Being Idiots
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@SfriedScientist brought to my attention on twitter PETA’s new campaign, saying PETA is “now only concerned with the ethical treatment of *some* animals, vilifies sharks”. Indeed, their new campaign is wrong on so many levels. The ad in question is below: The backstory makes it incredibly insensitive and horrific as well, as Toni Whitt explains: A man . . . → Read More: PETA, Still Consistent in Being Idiots

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Shark Siblingicide
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Came across this in a youtube search for something unrelated (I swear distraction is built into the YT search algorithm), but it reminded me of a blog post from back in the day by one of favorite bloggers, Kelsey at From Mauka to Makai, who wrote more generally about sibling rivalry but illustrated this . . . → Read More: Shark Siblingicide

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Shark Bait: Gordon Ramsay Helps Expose Shark Finning
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Below is a highlights video of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s special Shark Bait in which he does his part to root out shark finning and trace it back to the fishermen who are tryign to make a living this way. You can watch the entire program at Thaicodfish’s Youtube channel, but this reel below really . . . → Read More: Shark Bait: Gordon Ramsay Helps Expose Shark Finning

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Shark Week: What Is Your Fascination With Sharks?
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Sunday night I wondered aloud on Twitter: “In 140 or less, why are you (or are you not) fascinated by #sharks? Use the hastags #sharkweek #DSN and I’ll compile a list!” My twitter buddy @jtotheizzoe posted the same on his excellent Tumblr site Its Ok To Be Smart. We both got some great responses at both places! So after . . . → Read More: Shark Week: What Is Your Fascination With Sharks?

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A bunch of hot heads
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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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