Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we…
View More Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?Category: Mating & Reproduction
Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs
Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins. They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400…
View More Another Species With Forehead Sexual OrgansTGIF: O’ those crazy aquatic mammals? Wait a minute…
At the Rayavadee hotel in Krabi, Thailand Aurora gives birth to her latest calf at 3:39 PM, on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at the Vancouver…
View More TGIF: O’ those crazy aquatic mammals? Wait a minute…Worst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and Constraints
It’s been eight days since Miriam posted at Double XX This Wired piece on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs also made me want to smash…
View More Worst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and Constraints100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
View More 100 Million Year Old Giant SpermCoral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
View More Coral and Brittle Stars, Together ForeverTGIF: Echinoderms Aren’t So Bad
This animation from Daniel Brown at Biochemical Soul makes me come close to actually liking echinoderms. Well..at least I still like them more than mammals. …
View More TGIF: Echinoderms Aren’t So BadAre sea urchins bad parents?
Sea urchin offspring have one of the coolest names in the plankton. They’re called “pluteus” larvae. Yet, according to this narrator, urchins don’t know or…
View More Are sea urchins bad parents?A Sexy Friday in the Intert00bz
Cephalopod Tea Party reports that baby squidlings take first prize in the 2009 Art of Science Competition! Myrmecos has some great photography on 2 spotted…
View More A Sexy Friday in the Intert00bzTGIF: Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini
Below is all of Season 2 of Green Porno. All of Season 1 and behind the scenes videos can be seen at the Sundance Channel.…
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