You can thank the major ocean spreading centers for the fact we all still don’t dwell on a Pangea Motherland. At nearly 10,000 kilometers in…
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Why Oil-Laden Prey is Bad for Sea Birds
Oil is bad for wildlife. Period. But we really do not understand how it is bad. What does it do? Can marine organisms respond physiologically…
View More Why Oil-Laden Prey is Bad for Sea BirdsResearchBlogCast #8: Protecting the Environment Reduces Poverty?
Each week Razib Khan, Dave Munger and I discuss a paper that was recently blogged on in the Researchblogging.org. This week I chose the following…
View More ResearchBlogCast #8: Protecting the Environment Reduces Poverty?Huge Silicate Sponge Spicules and the Evolution of Calcification
The deep-sea sponge Monorhaphis chuni (Hexactinellida) has the world’s largest known biosilica structure! A silicate spicule that can grow up to 3 meters long. That’s…
View More Huge Silicate Sponge Spicules and the Evolution of CalcificationThe Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)
An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- How could not think of the colossal…
View More The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)ResearchBlogCast #5: Putting Plasticity into Population Ecology
Each week Dave Munger, Razib Khan and I discuss an article from the ResearchBlogging.org aggregator. This week we discuss a potentially revolutionary new model published…
View More ResearchBlogCast #5: Putting Plasticity into Population EcologyThe Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
KAZ – A new occasional series modeled from Ed Yong’s Pocket Science where I will briefly report a few cool studies and tell you why…
View More The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old OstracodsGuest Post: The Largest Habitats on Earth
Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep…
View More Guest Post: The Largest Habitats on EarthSamurai and Deep-Sea Loricifera Should Use More Rouge
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world-Horace It is good to carry some powered rouge in one’s…
View More Samurai and Deep-Sea Loricifera Should Use More RougeWhat’s New With the Dr. M and the Oceans?
You might have noticed that my posting frequency is down recently. Why? 1. Kevin Z convinced me to start Tweeting. There seems to be an…
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