Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
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Coral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
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Way before even your great-great-grandpappy was born and Ohio was ocean instead of cornfields, it was the “Age of the Fishes”. During this Devonian (400-360…
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The Duke Research site this month features my answers to five questions about ocean biodiversity, body size variation, blue whales, municipal water supplies, giant squids,…
View More 5 Questions With MeHow Did You Get Here?
A common theme in the talks I am attending is how and why species exist/coexist in certain localities. Two more talks today hit on this…
View More How Did You Get Here?All The Better To Eat You With My Dear!
The evolution of parrotfish saw two morphological innovations, pharyngeal jaw modification and the novel intramandibular joint. The pharyngeal jaw, a characteristic of all parrotfish, is…
View More All The Better To Eat You With My Dear!OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston…
View More OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of DespairTGIF: Sperm Whale Pwns Fishermen
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View More TGIF: Sperm Whale Pwns FishermenDo Vent Crabs Do It Under the Gyre?
[googlemap lat=”-37.5″ lng=”-110.5″ width=”500px” height=”300px” zoom=”3″ type=”G_HYBRID_MAP”]Pacific-Antarctic Ridge[/googlemap] Vent crabs live in the dark depths of the ocean. Previous studies have shown that the vent…
View More Do Vent Crabs Do It Under the Gyre?On the study of crustaceous genitalia
Post by Matt Hoch. Dr. J. Matt Hoch is newly minted PhD from SUNY Stony Brook who is interested in the reproductive ecology and life…
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