I take on a senseless internet meme and make it even more so – for science. With the northern hemisphere days getting shorter, and…
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Category: Habitats
No way is that a Manta in the Kelp Forest…
Yes…yes it is. This video was just taken off of San Clemente Island by spearfisherman Carter Jessop (used with permission). This is his account…
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What the "Call of the Reef" is Telling Us
Coral reefs are in crisis. They are fragile. They are complex. And they are disappearing faster than we are able to understand them. This threat…
View More What the "Call of the Reef" is Telling UsA Narrative of Coral-Dwelling Barnacles With the Aid of Internet Memes
Not everything on a coral is actually a coral. Embedded into the hard coral’s surfaces are nearly 100 species of specialized barnacles—the Pyrgomatidae. New work…
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Floating Forests
This is a guest post by one of our most fabulous DSN Scientist in Residence and shanty singing partners, Jarrett Byrnes. Jarrett is a professor…
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The Superiority Complex
“The marlin I just caught was an infant by comparison with the great fish, only 120 pounds and about four years old, but it is…
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A New Inside Anus Found Very Deep
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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Penguin Problems
For African Penguins, humans can make really lousy neighbors, but they have even bigger problems. In real estate it’s all about location, location, location. A…
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The Immigrant
Because when you are a polar bear living in the 21st century, the struggle is indeed real. Props: Omar Malik, Monte Kawahara, Ben Goldfarb,…
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Sex, Snails, Sustenance…and Rock & Roll
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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