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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Category: Pelagic
We don't know the ocean
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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The rainbow-covered animal with a dark side
Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but…
View More The rainbow-covered animal with a dark sideThese are a few of my favorite species: Pig Butt Worm
This 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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Diagnosing Death with Diatoms
“I know you drowned him in the ocean, these bones don’t lie…” Ever heard of forensic limnology? Neither had I, until I had a random…
View More Diagnosing Death with DiatomsZOMG Whale shark attack!!!! Or not…
So this little gem came across my Google alerts today. The cognitive dissonance between what happens (biologically) in that video, what the two intrepid heroes…
View More ZOMG Whale shark attack!!!! Or not…The Plankton Pundit
One of the many reasons that I find plankton to be so delightful is the sheer joy of seeing something so beautiful and alien pop out of…
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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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The Atlantic Sun is a potential environmental disaster
EDITOR’S UPDATE 7/24/14: The Atlantic Sun weighed anchor and left the Biosphere Reserve under its own power on 7/23/14 Thank you to all our readers…
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Mantas to Reef Fishes: I Drink Your Miltshake
Manta Rays are nature’s spawn vacuums. Aided by new technologies and teams of overworked graduate students and unpaid interns, and prodded by the dismal decline…
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