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Category: Intertidal
Anemone consumes a baby seabird
One afternoon, my coworker Lisa Guy and I are looking through her photo archive, when I spy something that looks like an purple butterball turkey…
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The Floating Rocks of the South Pacific
In the South Pacific world building occurs every day. From beneath the ocean’s depths active submarine volcanoes eject molten lava and sulfuric gases well above…
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TGIF: Seaweed Shop
A couple months back, I introduced the beginnings of an epic collaboration known as Bio Logik. Bio Logik is the deeper understanding of Biology and…
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Weed of the Week: The Rihanna Hypothesis Revisited
I love seaweed. Maybe it’s because I am from California and we are all plant loving hippies or maybe it’s because they’re the underappreciated overlords…
View More Weed of the Week: The Rihanna Hypothesis RevisitedHow horseshoe crabs may have saved your life
During my first year of grad school I conducted a jailbreak– a fellow grad student and I snuck into the Invertebrate Zoology lab and freed all…
View More How horseshoe crabs may have saved your lifeMarine nematodes have a microbiome too (and it’s way cooler than yours)
By now you’re probably aware that your entire skin surface (and every orafice) is swarming with millions of microbes. The human microbiome is pretty sexy…
View More Marine nematodes have a microbiome too (and it’s way cooler than yours)Tides eat British Teenager’s Car
Every day, without fail, the tides go in and out. While some people fail to understand why they rise and fall, others just completely forget that…
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The side effects NOT on the label
The intertidal can be a pretty rough place to call home. You have to deal with what seems like a whole web of trophic levels…
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There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…
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