An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…
View More Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea AnimalsCategory: Mating & Reproduction
Molluscan sexcapades cause unrest in Australia
[EDIT: Except the slugs are in New Zealand, not Australia – brain fail! Sorry to all Down Under. See comments below for an invigorating discussion…
View More Molluscan sexcapades cause unrest in AustraliaFemale snails in Australia are just happy to see you
At my former blog, The Oyster’s Garter, I occasionally wrote an advice column inspired by Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation and Dan Savage.…
View More Female snails in Australia are just happy to see youFirst New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878If Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?
Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods?…
View More If Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?70’s Porn Staches and the Female Fish Who Love Them
Straight men let’s face it. We will do anything if we think females will find it attractive. No matter how ludicrous, expensive, or time-consuming it…
View More 70’s Porn Staches and the Female Fish Who Love ThemFemale Urochordates Have Few, If Any, Inhibitions
Yep, that’s right. They get it on with any male gamete that passes their way. They just don’t give a [rhymes with duck]. Boom chaka-laka-boom.…
View More Female Urochordates Have Few, If Any, InhibitionsOil In Gulf’s Food Web
From Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press… Oil droplets have been found beneath the shells of tiny post-larval blue crabs drifting into Mississippi coastal marshes from offshore…
View More Oil In Gulf’s Food WebWhy Oil-Laden Prey is Bad for Sea Birds
Oil is bad for wildlife. Period. But we really do not understand how it is bad. What does it do? Can marine organisms respond physiologically…
View More Why Oil-Laden Prey is Bad for Sea BirdsThe Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)
An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- How could not think of the colossal…
View More The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)