About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…
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Bi-polar Invertebrata-ta
Two oceans couldn’t be farther apart. The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans have about 160 degrees of separation but Census of Marine Life scientists say they…
View More Bi-polar Invertebrata-taMarine Biology Videos at Wired Science
Mo, the Neurophilosopher, brought to my attention via Twitter Wired Science’s “10 Fantastic Marine Biology Videos“. They are all great bits from the marine youtube-o-sphere.…
View More Marine Biology Videos at Wired ScienceShe said spawning
I’m really enjoying The Oyster’s Garter these days. Miriam Goldstein keeps me updated with important nature stories like “When sponges ruled the Earth” 635 million…
View More She said spawningTGIF: Worlds Deepest Sea Fan
The depth record for deep-sea fans is held by Convexella krampi at 5850 meters in the frigid Antarctic, North Atlantic, and Kermadec Trench.
View More TGIF: Worlds Deepest Sea FanDeep Impacts from Fishing off Baja California
Scripps Insitute of Oceanography (SIO) post-doc Brad Erisman and colleagues Exequiel Ezcurra and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza used the three person DeepSee submersible to explore nearshore and…
View More Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja CaliforniaSeahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals
It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species…
View More Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocoralsTwo Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time
No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong…
View More Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The TimeI Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…
…from the Echinodermata. Chris Mah has heard my call and unleashed the World Asteroidea Database. This will definitely make roll call easier when I assemble…
View More I Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…Squid Cuts Body of Sexual Partner
Yeah, squids are freaky…real freaky freaks. An article over at Practical Fish Keeping details the work of recent PhD Henk-Jan Hoving. His dissertation makes mine…
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