…it’s a sea demon! Actually its a pteropod, a shell-less gastropod, and even crazier it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite.
View More OMG That's Not A Sea AngelCategory: Organisms
Robofish
Robotic sea bream from researchers at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Go to the Pink Tentacle to get the full story!
View More RobofishYes Volcanos Are Still Evil
Maria over at Green Gabbro feels that I have printed a false and malicious post for the purpose of defaming volcanoes. I cannot be held…
View More Yes Volcanos Are Still EvilTGIF: Genius Octopus Editionus
Why are we encouraging this behavior!! Doesn’t everyone know that in the future they will rise out of the oceans to destroy us????
View More TGIF: Genius Octopus EditionusPublic Dissection of Giant Squid
The Melbourne Museum is doing the unthinkable. They are unleashing a giant, rotting, stinking, mound of invertebrate flesh upon the public (July 17th at 11:30…
View More Public Dissection of Giant SquidBasking Sharks Go Wide and Deep
Basking sharks are heavily exploited from the shark–finning industry. The damage is compounded by the fact we know so little about their distribution in the…
View More Basking Sharks Go Wide and DeepIs it all over for corals?
A recent study published in Science Express by Dr. Kent Carpenter of Old Dominion University and a consortium of nearly thirty coral reef ecologists has determined that one-third of coral face increased extinction threat due to anthropogenic influences. Carpenter refers to the problem as the “the human meteor”.
View More Is it all over for corals?Floundermania!
In case you have been sleeping all day, flounders have been flopping all over the place! The maestro of science story-telling, Carl Zimmer, has produced…
View More Floundermania!Linnaeus' Legacy #9: Classifying the Classifiers
Mr. Slybird has the latest and greatest Linneaus’ Legacy carnival up at Biological Ramblings. It is an awesome blog carnival highlighting taxonomy, systematics, and biodiversity…
View More Linnaeus' Legacy #9: Classifying the ClassifiersFriday Deep Sea Picture: Ninja Hydromedusa!
From National Geographic’s new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Photograph by Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures.…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture: Ninja Hydromedusa!