The following post is authored by Leo Gaskins as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. 1. They…
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6 Reasons to Supersize
The following post is authored by Caroline Schanche as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. For those who…
View More 6 Reasons to SupersizeThe Eeyore of the Sea
The following post is authored by Catherine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. Sixty million times.…
View More The Eeyore of the SeaOctopus Sex at Hydrothermal Vents
In the video below, deep-sea octopus expert Janet Voight with the Field Museum, discusses sex in octopods focusing on Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis. This ghostly looking octopus is…
View More Octopus Sex at Hydrothermal VentsLOL Ocean Giants
As part of Sizing Ocean Giants, I asked students last week to generate LOLCat style memes for their study organisms. The Rules: It must include…
View More LOL Ocean GiantsGrowing Large on Jelly
The following post is authored by Caroline Schanche as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size.…
View More Growing Large on JellyIt’s Time to Throw in the Trawl
Les Watling is a professor at the University of Hawaii who is simultaneously one of the leading experts on two very different types of organisms–deep-sea…
View More It’s Time to Throw in the TrawlTGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse?
Some things are too cool to wait until Friday for the TGIF tag. Check out this spectacular footage of male Torquigener sp. pufferfish in Japan,…
View More TGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse?Five things about sharks you probably won’t see on TV this week
There have been a lot of tweets, blog words, column inches and TV time devoted in the last few days to the notion that Discovery’s…
View More Five things about sharks you probably won’t see on TV this weekLike Shark Week, But with Actual Facts
Ed Yong inspires me. It’s Shark Week, and the Discovery Channel have already jumped the shark with a fake documentary, asking if a giant prehistoric…
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