Aliens? Squishies? Deformed Plastic? Jellyfish? Many descriptors have accompanied the emails, texts, and Facebook messages that have recently flooded my cellular device, all describing one unique…
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Category: Cnidaria
The Plankton Chronicles
WARNING: Scrolling down might result in relinquishing a good portion of your Monday watching videos of squishy, wonderful plankton. If this is the kind of procrastination…
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The EDC of the SEA
Grab your glow sticks. Throw on all the neon swag you can possibly find. Turn up the Calvin Harris and DROP. THAT. BASS. We are going…
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The Animals of the Musashi Battleship
On November 1st, 1940 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched the Yamato Class Battleship the Musashi. She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerfully…
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Six surprising reasons to be thankful for the sea
The oceans provides us with most of the oxygen we breath, much of the food we eat, and even all the water we drink, which has passed…
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The Tale of a New Phylum That Really Wasn’t
In 1986, a group of scientists from Australia and New Zealand described, in the one of the highest profile scientific journals, the existence of a…
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Outta-sight jelly babies discovered under black light
So, the flower hat jellyfish pretty much looks like someone painted it while tripping on acid. It doesn’t just have tentacles on the edges, no…
View More Outta-sight jelly babies discovered under black lightAmazing purple jelly sighting in the deep sea
I live for moments like this. Things like this make the long nights editing grant proposals, the paper rejections, the failed experiments all worth it.…
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Jellyfish Journalism Fail
On May 9th of 2012, I wrote about a video going viral of an odd creature in the deep sea. The running hypothesis among online communities…
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This animal can be torn apart, and will come back together again
Though we might not think much of the small pond Hydra, it’s got an incredible secret superpower. It spends much of its day extending its…
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