Hermit crabs are generally awesome. They use snail shells, and sometime shells of other mollsucs, to protect their non-skeletonized squishy backends. Some are even adapted…
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Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, despite what cryptozoologists may be telling you. The internet is a double-edged sword of enlightenment and ignorance.…
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This is not the ocean: This is not the ocean: Indeed, even THIS is not the ocean: Before you start thinking that the folks at…
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Most sponges, inspiration for dish cleaners and mess absorbers, feed by filtering water through those many holes and channels. Their scientific name, Porifera, literally means…
View More These Are a Few of My Favorite Species: Carnivorous SpongesThis species bring a whole new meaning to butt face. It’s Latin name even means butt face. I jest… it actually means resembling a pig’s…
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In 1986, a group of scientists from Australia and New Zealand described, in the one of the highest profile scientific journals, the existence of a…
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One of the most obscure invertebrates of all of the ocean is the Entoprocta. It doesn’t take a student of Latin to understand that it’s…
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One of the things in the title was not actually part of my latest published research, unless you count the soundtrack I played while…
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Few things give me greater joy than a model. No not those waifs that strut the fashion runways but mathematical models. Sure my pulse…
View More The predictions of this model kills my love of models.I live for moments like this. Things like this make the long nights editing grant proposals, the paper rejections, the failed experiments all worth it.…
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