I simply cannot wait till Friday for this one. How I do LOVE charismatic megafauna!
View More Manta Absconds With $5000 CameraCategory: Organisms
Color Me Stressed
A post on NOAA’s Coral-List (an automatic mailing list forum for online discussions and announcements pertaining to coral reef ecosystem research, conservation, and education) caught…
View More Color Me StressedCephalopod Art
One of my favorite blogs, BiblioOdyssey, covers books, illustrations, science, history, visual materia obscura and generally just eclectic bookart. For all you cephalopodaphiles, you need…
View More Cephalopod ArtHow Many Deep-Sea Nematodes Are There & Why We Many Never Know
A professor once told me that if you removed everything from earth and just left the nematodes you would still recognize the outlines of everything.…
View More How Many Deep-Sea Nematodes Are There & Why We Many Never KnowFirst New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878HOLY $#!@ KILLER WHALES EAT GREAT WHITES!!!1!!1!
Major hat tip to Bomai Cruz on twitter. More details at National Geographic. RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!! ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY…
View More HOLY $#!@ KILLER WHALES EAT GREAT WHITES!!!1!!1!How One Sushi Chef Transitioned to Sustainability
Water Blogged, the blog of the Living Oceans Society, has a very nice post up about why it is important to educate yourself about sushi.…
View More How One Sushi Chef Transitioned to SustainabilityIf Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?
Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods?…
View More If Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!
Remember Dr. M’s recent disturbing post about the quelling of independent science in the Gulf? I can now officially announce that my lab was one…
View More Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!Yicaris – Progenitor of the Crustacea
Finding any new fossil is rare. Finding invertebrate fossils is made even more rare because of the squishy nature of most invertebrates. Sometimes the wandering…
View More Yicaris – Progenitor of the Crustacea