In 1964 S.B. Mirsa, a graduate student at Memorial University in Newfoundland, discovered a group of well-preserved fossilized soft-body animals. Subsequent research revealed the fauna…
View More The Earliest Known MetazoansMonth: June 2008
Wear Your Science!
From WearScience.com. Hat tip to Ed “rocket boy” Yong. I am partial to the cowboy scientist riding the wild microbe, but I’ll probably get the…
View More Wear Your Science!6:1 or None?
I like Miriam, she is a lady that gets it. Go there now and read her excellent post on the story behind the 6:1 ratio…
View More 6:1 or None?TGIF: Jumping Rays
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View More TGIF: Jumping RaysFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Sting Ray Migration
A Sting Ray migration off Key West.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Sting Ray MigrationBush's BOP; the President's Big Ocean Plan
The Bush administration has outlined plans for a “blue legacy” that would use Presidential authority to establish new national monuments, along the lines of Papahanaumokuakea…
View More Bush's BOP; the President's Big Ocean PlanI Choose Sharks Over Cigarettes
People are freaking out about the recent outbreak of shark attacks. This recent massive increase in shark attacks has media outlets claiming that a shark…
View More I Choose Sharks Over CigarettesPollution in deep-sea squid
You would think that deep-sea squid could hide from human pollution like dichlorodiphenyl- trichloroethane (DDT) and tributyltin (TBT), but these and other persistent organic pollutants…
View More Pollution in deep-sea squid4th Deep-Sea Coral Symposium accepting abstracts
Deep-sea corals bring people together. Geologists, ecologists, taxonomists, managers and climatologists all get a kick out of our heartless, brainless, colonial friends. So, we get…
View More 4th Deep-Sea Coral Symposium accepting abstractsDivers rescued from Komodo dragons
A group of five European recreational divers separated from their dive boat in Komodo National Park, Indonesia later came ashore on a nearby island only…
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