This is acid. This is your seaweed on acid. Sulphuric acid to be exact. A highly corrosive substance, also known as oil of vitriol, H2SO4…
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Category: Organisms
These are a few of my favorite species: Hermit crabs without shells
Hermit crabs are generally awesome. They use snail shells, and sometime shells of other mollsucs, to protect their non-skeletonized squishy backends. Some are even adapted…
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The Disappointing Reality of Musical Fish
Fanciful common names of fishes suggest there may be an orchestra in the sea, but this is yet another way the underwater world lets us…
View More The Disappointing Reality of Musical FishIs Jurassic World Violating CITES Protections?
Have you seen the new Jurassic World trailer? As if I even have to ask… Of course you have. And of course you are amazed…
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Six surprising reasons to be thankful for the sea
The oceans provides us with most of the oxygen we breath, much of the food we eat, and even all the water we drink, which has passed…
View More Six surprising reasons to be thankful for the seaThese are a few of my favourite species: sarcastic fringehead
Most submissions to the “These are a few of my favourite species” series are interesting, to be sure. Cute, even. You got your fuzzy faced…
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Putting snails in the microwave…for science!
Yahoo answers tells me I shouldn’t put snails in the microwave, but this paper tells me otherwise: Galindo LA, Puillandre N, Strong EE, Bouchet P…
View More Putting snails in the microwave…for science!These Are Few of My Favorite Species: Humphead Parrotfish
As the as the largest species of parrotfish, a single individual of Bolbometopon muricatum can ingest over 5 tons of reef per year. That freaky…
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The Antarctic is a rough neighbourhood
There’s a fascinating article getting some press this week, all about a growing incidence of an extraordinary bit of animal behaviour in the islands just…
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Cryptozoology
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, despite what cryptozoologists may be telling you. The internet is a double-edged sword of enlightenment and ignorance.…
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