h/t to @boraz for this stunning example of the mimic octopus mating! The video was filmed just this last November in Indonesia.
View More Sunday Cephalopod – Mating Mimic MoctopusCategory: Mating & Reproduction
Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a…
View More Why cyclops shark grabs at our imaginationBizarre Love Triangle of the Giant Cuttlefish
Shark Siblingicide
Came across this in a youtube search for something unrelated (I swear distraction is built into the YT search algorithm), but it reminded me of…
View More Shark SiblingicideYour Friday Cuttlefish
A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive…
View More Your Friday CuttlefishBaby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?
My colleagues Dr. Bruce Carlson – recently retired – and Marj Awai were the first folks to successfully collect chambered nautilus for display in public…
View More Baby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called…
View More There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A SquidA great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic InseminationTGIF: 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 larvaeWho’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?