You are fish. The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly. Your defense? You cough up enough loogies…
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Formerly known as the “boneyard”, this month Deep Sea News brings you the SHELL MIDDEN!!! A much more exciting and biodiverse assemblage of paleoposts. We…
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In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe…
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OK, I think that outta bring in the hits! Or get me fired… Check out this great post from Scicurious Friday Weird Science: The Magnificent…
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In a recent paper, de Jonge et al used x-ray fluorescence tomography to give us a new perspective on how diatoms put together those phenomenally…
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Dear Diatoms, You are pretty, and I like you. Haeckel liked you too, so did Gaudi. Obviously, they appreciated the little things in life. While…
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Barnacle evolution was recently rewritten by a large effort of Perez-Losada and colleagues in 2008. Using a combination of genes and morphological traits they rejected…
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