Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is an immensely popular block of programming that focuses on our toothy buddies, the elasmobranchs. This year Georgia Aquarium will play…
View More Get a fish’s eye view of Shark WeekCategory: Organisms
Tentacle Candlestick Holder
Just ordered a set of these for the banquet table at DSN headquarters.
View More Tentacle Candlestick HolderAnemones Fight Back Against Their Opressors
You may not realize that those unassuming slugs of the oceans, nudibranchs, are voracious predators in hiding. Sponges, corals, hydroids, bryozoans, anemones, barnacles, the Portugese…
View More Anemones Fight Back Against Their OpressorsTool Use In Fish
When I was in college, I had fish in aquarium. I repeatedly tried to train them to retrieve a beer from my dorm fridge, open…
View More Tool Use In FishTGIF: Portuguese Man-O-War Feeding
Despite being stung by one of them on a Gulf beach as a kid, Portugese Man-O-War’s are still one of my favorite organisms. Hat tip…
View More TGIF: Portuguese Man-O-War FeedingEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About Squid Development
And then some in this very informative 18 minute video by PacificCoast101 on YouTube. I
View More Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Squid DevelopmentTGIF: Eel larvae
The larvae of eels and other related species are called small heads or in the fancier Greek, Leptocephalus. The video above should give you some…
View More TGIF: Eel larvaeGiant Squid Found off Florida
Robert Benz and his buddies were fishing Sunday about 12 miles offshore from Port Salerno when they spotted something floating in the water. It turned out…
View More Giant Squid Found off FloridaMinorities in Ocean Sciences: The LGBT Pride Weekend Edition
Happy Pride Weekend to everyone! Here in San Francisco, I’m hunkered down in the office prepping for field work in Mexico, but through my open…
View More Minorities in Ocean Sciences: The LGBT Pride Weekend Edition30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.
I’ve been on stealth mode for the past few months, in part because my workload doubled this year and I’ve been serving double duty at…
View More 30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.