Get the full length video on the Whales Tohora exhibition website. Dive with a sperm whale and join the hunt for the giant squid. This…
View More KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm WhalesCategory: Biology
Assembling the Little Skate Genome
This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical…
View More Assembling the Little Skate GenomeWho’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?Just a, er, quickie
If you live in central Florida and have an interest in marine life, come and hear my wife and I discuss Sex in the Oceans…
View More Just a, er, quickieRepost: Hydromedusae Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
Preface: After several beers at DSN central. Dr. M and I decided this needed to be reposted. Don’t ask questions. Just read it and enjoy…
View More Repost: Hydromedusae Mounts Ninja Style InvasionA bunch of hot heads
Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so…
View More A bunch of hot headsScientists Take Darwin on the Road
Readers may recall me be posting about NESCent’s Darwin Day Road Show. Miller-McCune graciously allowed me to write up the experience for them. Please take…
View More Scientists Take Darwin on the Road
This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only Pulp Fiction comes close. For dark…
View More This is clearly an important species we’re dealing withSome Echinoderms Will Never Grow Up
Some of us never grow up. In fact I am writing this now in my Aquaman pajamas while laying on Return of the Jedi bedsheets*.…
View More Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow UpFrom the Editor’s Desk: Sorry Brunswick County, ID STILL Not Science
A couple weeks ago I was alerted to a newspaper article from the Brunswick Beacon, serving the Brunswick County next door to me in beautiful…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Sorry Brunswick County, ID STILL Not Science