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Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is an immensely popular block of programming that focuses on our toothy buddies, the elasmobranchs. This year Georgia Aquarium will play…

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Tool Use In Fish

Dr. M July 10, 2011 fish reef tool use

When I was in college, I had fish in aquarium. I repeatedly tried to train them to retrieve a beer from my dorm fridge, open…

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TGIF: Eel larvae

Dr. M July 1, 2011 eels larvae Leptocephalus

The larvae of eels and other related species are called small heads or in the fancier Greek, Leptocephalus. The video above should give you some…

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30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.

RickMac June 16, 2011 Diving fiji MPAs sharks

I’ve been on stealth mode for the past few months, in part because my workload doubled this year and I’ve been serving double duty at…

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Assembling the Little Skate Genome

Holly Bik May 28, 2011 DNA genome Little Skate model organism

This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical…

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A bunch of hot heads

Alistair Dove May 19, 2011 manta Metabolism physiology rays shark tuna

Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so…

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From The Editor’s Desk: The Secret Life of the Coelacanth

Dr. M May 16, 2011 coelocanth

Hans Fricke may not be a familiar name to you. His voice was never auto tuned into a pop hit, he did not make a…