Lynn Margulis classified the Chaetognaths, known as arrow worms, as deuterostomes. Deuterostomy is characterized by several developmental characteristics including radial, indeterminate cleavage, a posterior position…
View More What in Darwin’s Name Are Chaetognaths?!Month: June 2010
Spawning in the Oil
Hat tip to commenter Kelly. Consider the Bluefin Tuna. Highly prized meat, commercially valuable, the science points to serious over-harvesting, yet was not deemed by…
View More Spawning in the OilOrcas and Oil: Repost
REPOSTED FROM MAY 2008 When a scientist is writing a scientific paper we look for that one quintessential figure that tells the whole story. Other…
View More Orcas and Oil: RepostOil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: My Thoughts
A professor once told me that whether religious or not, each and every one of us has a geographical locality that we feel a deep…
View More Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: My ThoughtsBritish Petroleum, You Broke My Heart
Dear BP, I know it’s hard to admit, but it seems like we’re just not as close as we used to be. We don’t seem…
View More British Petroleum, You Broke My HeartOil Spill Puts Cold, Deepwater Corals At Risk
From Science Daily… Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately…
View More Oil Spill Puts Cold, Deepwater Corals At RiskThe Last Refuge
UPDATE: Glendon is now offering this beautiful piece of deep-sea art as prints on his website! Products range from cards to full size poster prints…
View More The Last RefugeOff To the 12th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium
Follow me next week on Twitter (DrCraigMc) to hear all the updates from the 12th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Those attending and tweeting make sure to…
View More Off To the 12th Deep-Sea Biology SymposiumOil Spill Update: June 3, 2010 Pt II
“No matter what took place & why it happened, the oil spill in the Gulf belongs to all of us”-Sheril Kirshenbaum BP manges to completely…
View More Oil Spill Update: June 3, 2010 Pt IIOil likely to reach east coast: update for Thurs June 3
Where The Oil Is Going Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) released a series of simulations showing that the oil in the…
View More Oil likely to reach east coast: update for Thurs June 3