Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures-F. Scott Fitzgerald Quirky, sheepish, fun-loving, lethargic, energetic, aloof, courageous, sensitive You might invoke these words to describe…
View More The many personalities of snails and anemonesCategory: Ecology
Tool Use In Fish
When I was in college, I had fish in aquarium. I repeatedly tried to train them to retrieve a beer from my dorm fridge, open…
View More Tool Use In FishTGIF: Eel larvae
The larvae of eels and other related species are called small heads or in the fancier Greek, Leptocephalus. The video above should give you some…
View More TGIF: Eel larvae30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.
I’ve been on stealth mode for the past few months, in part because my workload doubled this year and I’ve been serving double duty at…
View More 30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm Whales
Get the full length video on the Whales Tohora exhibition website. Dive with a sperm whale and join the hunt for the giant squid. This…
View More KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm WhalesWho’s your daddy?
Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access…
View More Who’s your daddy?A bunch of hot heads
Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so…
View More A bunch of hot headsSome Echinoderms Will Never Grow Up
Some of us never grow up. In fact I am writing this now in my Aquaman pajamas while laying on Return of the Jedi bedsheets*.…
View More Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow UpMetagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a…
View More Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceansSharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of Mobs
My life for the past few months has been all about sharks. Mind you, I’m not complaining. A confluence of opportunities has me building…
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