Ecology

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More Food, More Species

via GIPHY The Notorious B.I.G., Mase, and Puff Daddy understand. Increase one variable in a system and another variable rises en suite. For the B.I.G.…

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Malacology Monthly: It Eats Whaaaat?

Douglas Long November 11, 2015 conchology feeding ecology Gastropod malacology marine biology marine ecology mollusk Parasite predator sea snail seashell shell Snail toxins trophic

Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste is one thing, and having the…

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From the Top Shelf

Alex Warneke November 8, 2015 An Ocean Garden Berkley Josie Iselin Kathy Ann Miller seaweed WeedotWeek

“I fell in love with seaweed at the kitchen counter. I had returned with a sack full from the windswept beach, and as I dropped…

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How Urban Renewal Gets You Giant Sea Hares

Douglas Long November 2, 2015 estuary Lake Merritt Measure DD mollusk Oakland restoration San Francisco Bay Sea Hare

Why masses of giant ocean mollusks invading your city’s rest & relaxation zone is actually a good thing At the heart of downtown Oakland,…

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Malacology Monthly: Inside-Out

Douglas Long October 16, 2015 adaptation conchology Invertebrate invertebrate zoology malacology mollusks sea shells shells snails

This Open-House Special brings you inside the modern homes of today’s most popular marine mollusks Are you old enough to remember the show MTV Cribs, where…

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Malacology Monthly: Spines and How to Use Them

Douglas Long September 16, 2015 adaptation conch evolution Gastropod limpet malacology marine biology mollusk Murex oyster seashell Spines

Evolution is repetitive, especially if it produces adaptations that work well. If it’s all about survival, spines do the trick throughout the mollusk world. Scorpion Without…

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Life of Every Color & Kind

Alex Warneke September 16, 2015 Ecology Keystone Predators mussels seastars

When one of my favorite papers of all time gets made into a School House Rock-esque production….magic happens. I was smiling the whole time like the…

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Before Giant Plankton-Feeding Sharks, there were Giant Plankton-Feeding Sharks.

Douglas Long September 11, 2015 basking shark Cretaceous evolution filter-feeding fossil manta ray megamouth shark Paleontology plankton Pseudomegachasma sandtiger shark shark teeth whale shark

In the fossil history of sharks, a unique evolutionary experiment happened much earlier than anyone thought. The largest fishes in the oceans feed on some…

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Why are there no fish in the deepest deep sea?

RR Helm August 31, 2015

Here’s a mystery: below 8,400 meters there are no fish. There are other creatures: sea cucumbers, anemones, tiny worms, but no one has ever seen…

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The Art of Saving Our Seas

Alex Warneke August 10, 2015 PangeaSeed SeaWalls SeaWallsMX StayWild

“Artivism: An explosion of creativity, a marrying of art and activism” Over the past three years, street artists across the globe have taken up their brushes, prepped…

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