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Crazy Fish Heads

Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body…

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Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?

Dr. M October 19, 2009 Aerosmith Disney gonads hermaphrodite Madonna protandric Reproduction sex whale Whale Fall

Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we…

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A reminder that…

Dr. M October 8, 2009 Adaptations evolution excrement polar bears poo

…removal of waste represents over 550 million years of evolutionary adaptation to solve one of life’s most basic problems.

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The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna

Dr. M October 5, 2009 anoxic Antarctica biogeography bivalve Cenozoic circulation climate chagne Coral Cretaceous deep sea density echinoderms echinoids Eocene evolution extinction foram Gastropod global thermohaline circulation hypoxia isopod Miocene oceanography octopod Oligocene origination oxygen Paleobiology Paleocene Salinity Temperature Triassic

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the…

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Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs

Dr. M September 27, 2009 Baja California Chimaera claspers Elasmobranchia genitals ghostshark Holocephali sex sexual organ shark

Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins. They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400…

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DeepC Wormz R Da Bomb

Dr. M August 20, 2009 Annelida New Species polychaetes

Or perhaps more appropriately have the bomb. Osborn et al. report in Science seven previously unknown species (0.7 to 3.6 inches) of annelid worms hailing…

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TGIF: Color Me Squid

Kevin Zelnio August 14, 2009 Chromatophores color movie squid

CreatureCast Episode 1 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. Hat tip to Pharyngula. Like PZ said, “This is communicating science”. Well done on the part of…

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Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion

Dr. M August 11, 2009 abyss carbon cycle detritus echinoderm fatty acid food web grenadier lipid macrourids marine snow Pacific predator prey rattail Scavenger Station M.trophic

The 285 macrourid fishes, the rattails, whiptails, and grenadiers, are one of, if not the, most abundant fish in the deep. You cannot throw…well anything…without…

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The Compressible Octopus

Kevin Zelnio August 2, 2009 Cephalopod National Geographic Octopus

Hat tip to Cephalopod Tea Party!

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Worst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and Constraints

Dr. M July 30, 2009 constraints design Double XX evolution phylogenetic predator prey sharks size Wired

It’s been eight days since Miriam posted at Double XX This Wired piece on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs also made me want to smash…

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