In humans concentrations of carbon dioxide around 1%, normal is just a less than 0.04%, can make a person drowsy. Like a macroeconomics class. At…
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Category: Mollusk
Can Animals Directly Harness Solar Energy? Apparently So…
The following post is authored by Frank Lee as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. The summer is…
View More Can Animals Directly Harness Solar Energy? Apparently So…The masters of bling, carrier snails
Readers of DSN may think they know my favorite organism. Did you guess the giant isopod or did you guess the giant squid? Those beasties…
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The side effects NOT on the label
The intertidal can be a pretty rough place to call home. You have to deal with what seems like a whole web of trophic levels…
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There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…
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Sure this is a terrestrial snail and this is a marine blog. But c’mon I’m a malacologist and snails and dubstep are a natural pairing
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