A pretty cool little discovery! Amphipod hanging out down below 600 feet of ice in an isolated Antarctic basin. Is it lost?? What are you…
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New Bathyacmaea
This is a new species of Bathyacmaea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Patellogastropoda, Acmaeidae) currently under description by a japanese colleague. I have found hundreds of these individuals…
View More New BathyacmaeaSay Hello to My Little Friend
What looks like a worm, is completely symmetrical in cross-section, and in the words of Dr. Peter Holland: “It has no mouth, no gut, no…
View More Say Hello to My Little FriendIsopods Cause Reproductive Death in Shrimp
Isopods, you know them as those adorable little roly-poly bugs under rocks in the forest or the gigantic Bathynomus of the deep sea. They are…
View More Isopods Cause Reproductive Death in ShrimpLook At the Drifting Jellies. Just Look At It!
Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo. Hat tip to Penguin Wanderings.
View More Look At the Drifting Jellies. Just Look At It!Molluscs, now with 100% more awesum
A blog war is starting to develop again. No I am not talking about this one. I am talking about the Great Invertebrate Wars. Everything was…
View More Molluscs, now with 100% more awesumSpinach, Popeye, and Fishy Pigeons
Originally, Popeye the Sailor gained strength from rubbing the head of a rare chicken. Not until 1932 and thereafter did Popeye gain superhuman strength and…
View More Spinach, Popeye, and Fishy PigeonsWon’t They Think of the Poor Bone-Eating Worms?
There is a disturbing trend in this BBC news article about the relationship between whaling and carbon. The report comes from a talk at The…
View More Won’t They Think of the Poor Bone-Eating Worms?Family Gatherings and Free Swimming Sperm Packets
My wife is from a very large family. Inevitably at in-law gatherings, I find myself whispering into my wife’s ear, “How are you related to…
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