Prepare yourself for the hammer. No not that hammer. This one. The Malleidae, or the hammer oysters, is a suite of around 30 species, primarily…
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Category: Favorite Species
Trolling in the deep: from raging rants to support of the strange
Today’s guest post is by Natasha Phillips, a marine biologist and PhD researcher based at Queen’s University Belfast, interested in the movement ecology, diet and…
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You Had Me at Seaweed-based Glitter
As I was doing my morning internet perusing, I came across this fun video of a glittery bath bomb making a heinous mess is someones…
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#SlugLyfe
For when it’s Thursday and everyone needs a little bit more cute, cuddly, and slightly slimey things in their life…Etsy never let’s us down. I have…
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Look at the Size of that Kelp
I think one reason DSN wanted to rope me in was that Alex wanted another algae nerd on staff. And I hope I make her…
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Rocky Intertidal v.2.0
Last year, DSN compatriot and Captain of the rag-tag crew over at Southern Fried Science, dropped a science outreach bomb. Dr. A.D. Thaler struck some ecological/technological brilliance in…
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Tentacles, Tube Feet, and Other Sticky Things.
You guys…I did a thing. I published my first book. It’s a children’s sticker book all about the intertidal squishies that I love so much!…
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Have you been nautical or nice? Take your present wrapping game to the next level
Throughout the years my dad and I have had some duke-out contests wrapping the holiday gifts. We aren’t just talking about fancy bows and ribbons here.…
View More Have you been nautical or nice? Take your present wrapping game to the next levelThis Thanksgiving Remember the Cranberry Bog Dolphin
We at DSN are not typically fans of the dolphins but we’re no monsters. I love cranberry sauce out of the can but I do want…
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+1 For the Robot Army
What better animal to use as the spokesperson for the first soft bodied, autonomous robot?? To the engineers at Harvard 1. You win science today…
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