How separated is Architeuthis and Kevin Bacon you ask? Dr. M previously analyzed this important pop culture metric: As you might remember although the Giant…
View More KRAKEN Day: Architeuthis Is 3 Degrees Away from Kevin BaconCategory: Organisms
KRAKEN Day: Drinks of the Abyss
We all know that Kraken Black-Spiced Rum if the official alcoholic beverage of the deep sea. And with epic educational videos like these, its a…
View More KRAKEN Day: Drinks of the AbyssKRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm Whales
Get the full length video on the Whales Tohora exhibition website. Dive with a sperm whale and join the hunt for the giant squid. This…
View More KRAKEN Day: Defenseless Kraken Hunted by Mean Ole Sperm WhalesKRAKEN Day: Attacks of the Kraken
This collection was brought to our attention by former DSN staffer Peter Etnoyer in 2008. ——————————- Today is Cephalopod Awareness Day. Jason at Cephalopodcast asks…
View More KRAKEN Day: Attacks of the KrakenKRAKEN Day: Got Yer Squid Paraphernalia?
Squid Coin? Kraken Stamps? Guide to taking down a Kraken? Print of epic Rick “The Nature Boy” Flair royal rumbling with the Giant Squid?
View More KRAKEN Day: Got Yer Squid Paraphernalia?KRAKEN Day: Giant Squid = Awesomesauce
To get you ready for the awesomesauce that is KRAKEN Day(!!), it is only appropriate to open with Dr. M’s Epic giant squid post from…
View More KRAKEN Day: Giant Squid = AwesomesauceWelcome to Kraken Day!
Welcome to the unofficial KRAKEN DAY on DSN! Why is an unofficial KRAKEN DAY on DSN? We are celebrating all things KRAKEN today in honor …
View More Welcome to Kraken Day!Reef Madness!
In a very generous online experiment, science writer and blogger at Wired Science David Dobbs, is putting up his entire book Reef Madness in small…
View More Reef Madness!Assembling the Little Skate Genome
This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical…
View More Assembling the Little Skate GenomeWho’s your daddy?
Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access…
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