Corals don’t usually know what country they are living in, and those that do assure me that it does not affect their biology, just their politics.
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Albino Animal Extravaganza
All the rage this week on the big bad web is the big bad albino orca. It swims around the big dark ocean intimidating other…
View More Albino Animal ExtravaganzaTGIF: Giant Isopods
Giant Isopods Ate My Well-Known Brand of Corn Chip They will attack you when your sleeping! Everything is better when narrated by Sir David Attenborough
View More TGIF: Giant IsopodsFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Giant Isopods
Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?Cephalopod Freak Show
Unfortunately, Zoologix beat us to the story of Henry the Hexapus. Henry, caught in a lobster pot off north Whales, is the first reported six-legged…
View More Cephalopod Freak ShowLadies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you’d be a little on the kinky side…
View More Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in HaremsSometimes Sea Monsters Are Real
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. “The Monster”, which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the…
View More Sometimes Sea Monsters Are RealThe Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access Journals
Currently a biodiversity crisis is underway, which many have termed the sixth extinction. E.O. Wilson in 1993 suggested 30,000 species extinctions occur per year, roughly…
View More The Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access JournalsLOLRhizocephalans: Plotting to Take Over the World
Rhizocephalan overlord,Peltogaster paguri (tubular thing sticking up on the right), infecting hermit crab. Photo courtesy of Jens Hoeg, used with permission. Rhizocephala are curious creatures.…
View More LOLRhizocephalans: Plotting to Take Over the World