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Five Mind-Blowing Bivalve GIFs That Will Blow Your Mind – Your Blown Mind Won’t Believe #6!

Since the dawn of human civilization, much has been written about the sheer adrenaline-pumping excitement of clams, scallops, cockles, but today’s digital age has cranked-up that…

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Top 10 GIFs of Ocean Animals Eating Other Animals

Dr. M December 7, 2015 GIF Predation

1. Cone snail eating whole fish 2. Orca taking a seal 3. California angel shark eating a California horn shark 4. Goblin shark eating a fish 5.…

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How to Build a Better Tide Machine

Alex Warneke December 2, 2015 Arduino Rocky Intertidal Tides

As an experimental ecologist working in an intertidal system, my life was quite literally dictated by the tides throughout grad school. Bringing organisms that run on a cycle…

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Meet Phylliroe: the sea slug that looks and swims like a fish

RR Helm November 18, 2015

Biologists have a habit of naming things after cool animals. Cars named after comb jellies, internet passwords after giant squid. Most of these names I…

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Dramatic Cuttlefish is Dramatic with Bonus Video

Dr. M November 17, 2015

Deep Underwater from Alex Soloviev is a sequence of trippy music and great underwater footage. The theme music is Solar Walk 3-Event Horizon by Astropilot. So yeah…trippy.…

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Jurassic Hermit Crabs Are Even More Awesome Than You Can Envision

Dr. M November 16, 2015 clickbait Hermit Crab I mean what's up with that title IFLMS Jurassic

In case it ever comes up in a Jeopardy Daily Double question, the fossil record does not contain many hermit crab fossils. That’s right, those…

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More Food, More Species

Dr. M November 11, 2015 biodiversity deep sea Organisms submersible taxonomy Wood Fall

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.…