Right, enough of the folksy stuff, time to get metal. Or at least, what used to be metal, back when metal was, well, metal. To…
View More TGIF – The Rime of the Ancient MarinerAuthor: Alistair Dove
Dr. Alistair Dove is a systematic and ecological parasitologist by training, with broader research interests in the natural history and health of marine animals, especially whale sharks. He is currently Director of Research and Conservation at Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta USA. His comments here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Georgia Aquarium
TGIF – All creatures great and small
Two diversity videos for this TGIF One of my favourite scenes from that wonderful bit of BBC crack-for-marine-biologists: “Blue Planet”. This sailfish scene plays out…
View More TGIF – All creatures great and smallTGIF – Shameless fuzzy face
I’m at work today, but took some time out to take a few photos. To wit, Floyd the harbour seal says “Happy Thanksgiving”, or rather…
View More TGIF – Shameless fuzzy faceThe icy colder finger of death
I just can’t wait until the BBC series Frozen Planet airs here in the states. Take this clip for example, which the BBC released today.…
View More The icy colder finger of deathTo see the world in a grain of sand – movement from a turtle hatchling’s perspective
[This is a repost originally published at my old blog, DeepTypeFlow] A grain of sand represents many things to a baby turtle. While still within…
View More To see the world in a grain of sand – movement from a turtle hatchling’s perspectiveTGIF – The Flamboyant Cuttlefish
This cuttlefish looks like how I feel, cos, like, it’s FRIDAY!
View More TGIF – The Flamboyant CuttlefishThe real cookie monster
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…
View More The real cookie monsterTGIF – a clarion call for manta rays
I just wanted to share some nice footage from Mexico showing a group of clarion agenlfish (Holacanthus clarionensis) cleaning a manta ray that comes within…
View More TGIF – a clarion call for manta raysInto TheBlu, virtually
Try to imagine a virtual ocean, an online watery world divided into discrete ecosystems, each populated with semi-autonomous avatars of every marine species that lives there. …
View More Into TheBlu, virtuallyWhy cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
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…
View More Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination