After reading a recent paper in the journal Coral Reefs on the ability of Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) to masquerade as branching stony coral (abstract…
View More Invertebrate WannabeMonth: August 2011
Giant Squid Attacks Town
If I had $1500 I would buy The Belly’s Ocean a 12″ x 14″ watercolor, ink, acrylic on Rives BFK illustration paper by Matt Rota. Unfortunately my $1500…
View More Giant Squid Attacks TownVampire Squid Dazzles Would Be Predators
QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry. In the clip above a crack team tackles the…
View More Vampire Squid Dazzles Would Be PredatorsSweeping Fishermen’s Human Rights Under the Rug
While some think that being a marine scientist is somehow more elitist than being a fisherman, they can’t be further from the truth. As a…
View More Sweeping Fishermen’s Human Rights Under the RugScaring the $#!& Out of Lampreys
Sea lampreys are invasive in the Great Lakes and cause quite a problem to both maritime industry and the local ecology. They are considered one…
View More Scaring the $#!& Out of LampreysAre crawfish really lobster?
The New York media is all aflame over a shocking discovery at local institution Zabar’s. Zabar’s, an Upper West Side gourmet grocery store is justly…
View More Are crawfish really lobster?A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic InseminationFlight of the Argonauts
In my last post about my voyage on from Hawaii to California this summer, Wil asked what it was like to be at sea for…
View More Flight of the ArgonautsNever seen a sailor we couldn’t lick
Most of the DSN team has also never seen a sailor that we couldn’t lick. Salty! Via GRP & Comically Vintage.
View More Never seen a sailor we couldn’t lickWhy you should wash your damn spoon
Poster by Max Temkin, via Grist.
View More Why you should wash your damn spoon