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…
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Is 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!I Love the Smell of the Deep Sea in the Morning
Following in the footsteps of Craig, I have a short piece published in the July/August issue of SEED Magazine for their Why I Do Science…
View More I Love the Smell of the Deep Sea in the MorningHydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s…
View More Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style InvasionTGIF: A Passionate Affair With a Squid
Hat Tip to Matt for pointing us to this post at Ectoplasmosis. Two parts beautiful and three parts disturbing you’re unlikely to forget this video…
View More TGIF: A Passionate Affair With a SquidSo Very Close But No Squid
Craig meet Fate…Fate meet Craig…Fate you can now proceed to slap Craig in the face. In my 2 year reign tenure at MBARI, I have…
View More So Very Close But No SquidToo Many Species, Too Few Scientists
That is the common theme in marine biology. Clara Moskowitz has an article up at LiveScience describing how scientists are struggling to keep up with…
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