Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the…
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When Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!
What’s the difference between a collection of Osedax “Zombie worms” and the 112th United States Congress? One is a population of spineless, sedentary, opportunistic life…
View More When Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!Shark Hope
“Bula!” (That’s Fijian for “Yo, wassup!“) Following a successful premier this past Monday in the Fiji capital of Suva, I’m proud to bring you the…
View More Shark HopeFace The Truthiness
With apologies to Karen James. (Pretty much goes for Paleontologists, too… Sorry Laelaps.) I kid! I’m a kidder!
View More Face The TruthinessSALT FROM SPAAAAACE!
Apologies if I lost any of you post-Gen X readers with that Muppet Show homage title. But this space + ocean news is a clearcut…
View More SALT FROM SPAAAAACE!Your Friday Cuttlefish
A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive…
View More Your Friday CuttlefishFijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”
By now you’ve no doubt noticed that international shark protections (well, at least legislative shark protections) are beginning to pile-up. It can be truly said…
View More Fijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”Invertebrate Wannabe
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 WannabeContextualize Your Outrage
By now, you’ve probably seen coverage of the news from July 24 by MSNBC, and documented first-hand by my colleague John Bruno over at SeaMonster…
View More Contextualize Your OutrageShark Researcher Seeks New Permit For Controversial Tagging Procedure
Here we go again. Follow the link (or click image below) for special report by KTVU TV, Oakland, CA. For the full online chatter on…
View More Shark Researcher Seeks New Permit For Controversial Tagging Procedure