Ed Yong over at Not Exactly Rocket Science ha an awesome post highlighting recent research on the unique vision of mantis shrimps. At the end…
View More Another Blow to Sea Cucumbers and a New Challenger to the RingAuthor: Kevin Zelnio
Dealers Smuggle Drugs Using Semi-Subs
CNN reports: “Although the vessels were once viewed as a quirky sideshow in the drug war, they are becoming faster, more seaworthy, and capable of…
View More Dealers Smuggle Drugs Using Semi-SubsUnknown Chilean Population of Blue Whale Discovered
A blue whale from the eastern Pacific. According to the IUCN they are endangered. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. It amazes me that we can still in…
View More Unknown Chilean Population of Blue Whale DiscoveredIs the Ocean a Mirror? or Why is the Ocean Blue?
Did you actually make it through that?? Did you catch the strange reason why the sea is blue? Apparently the ocean is a mirror (not…
View More Is the Ocean a Mirror? or Why is the Ocean Blue?Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis, 1921-2008
It is with great sadness I report the passing away of one of the world’s greatest carcinologists, L.B. Holthuis. A carcinologist studies crustaceans and he…
View More Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis, 1921-2008Highlights from the Ocean Sciences Meeting
I know I was supposed to be live blogging the conference, but there is just so much to do and see here the ASLO Ocean…
View More Highlights from the Ocean Sciences MeetingGuts full of rubbish
Plastic bags from the stomach of a dead minke whale are making the news in the UK. British newspaper Daily Mail has a story on…
View More Guts full of rubbishLiveblogging Ocean Sciences: Marine Predator Hotspots
I’m reporting this week from the Ocean Sciences Meeting, the annual meeting of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and The Oceanographic Society…
View More Liveblogging Ocean Sciences: Marine Predator HotspotsSurvival guide to rising sea level: a floating home
Perhaps you thought houseboats were going out of style? Au contraire, sea levels are rising and coastal populations are increasing, so the land is disappearing…
View More Survival guide to rising sea level: a floating homeLadies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you’d be a little on the kinky side…
View More Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems