The carrier shells of the family Xenophoridae are the most remarkable bunch of snails. Both their common name and their Latin name give away their…
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Sex, Snails, Sustenance…and Rock & Roll
One of the things in the title was not actually part of my latest published research, unless you count the soundtrack I played while…
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Giant Squid Spotted on the Streets of Baltimore
The advantage of being a marine biologist is that EPIC things pass by my desk quite often. Sure my salary is low and the hours long but…
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Beautiful Wood Fall Art from Immy Smith
When I crowd funded part of my wood fall research, Immy Smith reached out to me about painting some of the life that occurs on these…
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Sleuthing the Largest Snail
Reason #381 that I love my job I spent this morning doing this: In the last few days I have been tracking down the world’s…
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This sea slug is like a cross between a dinosaur, a jellyfish, and a watermelon
I am awkward, and for that reason I’ve decided the sea slug Melibe will be my new power animal. I’m clumsy, equally bad at all sports, and…
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The Floating Rocks of the South Pacific
In the South Pacific world building occurs every day. From beneath the ocean’s depths active submarine volcanoes eject molten lava and sulfuric gases well above…
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TGIF: Seaweed Shop
A couple months back, I introduced the beginnings of an epic collaboration known as Bio Logik. Bio Logik is the deeper understanding of Biology and…
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Will My Wood Research Be Poplar?
I wooden dream of having a post full of wood puns. On the other hand my alder ego often gets the best of me and…
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An Oceanic Ode
This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral…
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