Ecology

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The Superiority Complex

Alex Warneke August 9, 2014 Book Great Fish In Pursuit of Giants Matt Rigney

“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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Penguin Problems

Douglas Long July 30, 2014 conservation over fishing penguins Seabirds

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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Sex, Snails, Sustenance…and Rock & Roll

Dr. M July 23, 2014 food Hermaphrodites larva sex Twisted Sister

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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Outta-sight jelly babies discovered under black light

RR Helm July 18, 2014

So, the flower hat jellyfish pretty much looks like someone painted it while tripping on acid. It doesn’t just have tentacles on the edges, no…

Coral Reef Ecology Fish Mating & Reproduction Pelagic Uncategorized

Mantas to Reef Fishes: I Drink Your Miltshake

Douglas Long July 16, 2014 coral reef feeding fish manta ray milkshake Reproduction

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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Shark Weak

RickMac July 16, 2014 humor media mess shark week sharks

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Female Crabs Only Eat Their Own Young When They’re Hungry

Dr. M July 14, 2014 cannabilism crabs larvae plankton

For many ocean invertebrates, the first stage of life occurs as tiny larvae in the plankton. The toughness of the planktonic larval life has caused…

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Feces Friday: Marine Edition

Douglas Long July 11, 2014

Here’s your recap of the top excretion-related news in the past few weeks, and what it means to our ocean world: Mo’ Whales, Mo’ Poop,…

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Inked.

Alex Warneke July 1, 2014 Research tattoos VIE tags

From ancient polynesians to seafaring sailors, tattoos in their various fashions have adorned the derma canvas for centuries. Used to represent tribal ranks, voyages to distant lands and conquests,…

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The all seeing, all knowing, eye of upside down barnacles

Dr. M June 17, 2014 Barnacle compound eye Eye eyespot reader question

Reader Jonathan W. wrote into DSN with this You guys are some of the most accessible in marine science, so I thought I pose this…

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Category: Ecology