A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…
View More Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t ShineCategory: Biology
Marine Invertebrate Diversity Goes With The Flow
Here’s an observation in which most recreational divers are familiar. Whether you’re diving the chilly coast of Maine or the tropical waters of Fiji, those…
View More Marine Invertebrate Diversity Goes With The FlowGreat Migrations
National Geographic embarked on an ambitious two and a half year film project, covering over 420,000 square miles, and telling the story of animal movements…
View More Great MigrationsRare Giant Jellyfish Caught on Video
Although first collected in 1901 and scientifically described in 1910, the giant jellyfish, Stygiomedusa gigantea, is rarely collected or seen. It is likely one of the largest invertebrate predators currently in…
View More Rare Giant Jellyfish Caught on VideoNew Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsCuriouser and Curiouser
This is a special report Jarrett Byrnes, a marine ecologist at University California, Santa Barbara and blogger at I’m a Chordata, Urochordata. ————————————– Something new…
View More Curiouser and CuriouserOf eyes and sex in lizardfishes
145 million years ago, in the Cretaceous, the air was warm and the seas were high and rum flowed freely. On land, mammals were oppressed under dinosaur…
View More Of eyes and sex in lizardfishesCoral-devouring sea stars
A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in…
View More Coral-devouring sea starsSea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex
Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography…
View More Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and SexPenguins Immediately Benefit From MPA
There is much buzz these days about marine protected areas (MPAs) and no-take zones. We are approaching the age of assessment. There has been enough…
View More Penguins Immediately Benefit From MPA