All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called…
View More There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A SquidCategory: Organisms
What are your favorite scientific names?
Sure, the purpose of scientific names is to provide taxonomic clarity, but some of them just sound awesome. This post was inspired by the Australian…
View More What are your favorite scientific names?Invertebrate Wannabe
After reading a recent paper in the journal Coral Reefs on the ability of Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) to masquerade as branching stony coral (abstract…
View More Invertebrate WannabeGiant Squid Attacks Town
If I had $1500 I would buy The Belly’s Ocean a 12″ x 14″ watercolor, ink, acrylic on Rives BFK illustration paper by Matt Rota. Unfortunately my $1500…
View More Giant Squid Attacks TownVampire Squid Dazzles Would Be Predators
QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry. In the clip above a crack team tackles the…
View More Vampire Squid Dazzles Would Be PredatorsA great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic InseminationFlight of the Argonauts
In my last post about my voyage on from Hawaii to California this summer, Wil asked what it was like to be at sea for…
View More Flight of the ArgonautsMarine Fungi are Totally Badass
That’s right, you heard me—there are mushrooms that live in the sea. OK, well technically a mushroom is a fruiting body of a fungus with…
View More Marine Fungi are Totally BadassOctopus Mimicry
From the always funny xkcd comics. H/t to Christine Huffard
View More Octopus MimicryCoelacanth Swag and Cephalopod Mimicry, Sex, and Walking
One of my greatest friends ever sent my a unexpected but welcome gift in today’s mail. Yes, my love can be bought. I know…
View More Coelacanth Swag and Cephalopod Mimicry, Sex, and Walking