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Category: Organisms

Adaptations New Research

Hammer Time

Dr. M December 8, 2009 binocularcephalofoilhammerheadMC HammerRB Editor's Selectionsharkvision

Every time you see me that Hammer’s just so hype I’m dope on the floor and I’m magic on the mic Now why would I…

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Coral Organisms

Cnidarian Lifeforms

Kevin Zelnio December 1, 2009 CnidariaCoralPolypsZoanthids

Cnidarian Lifeforms from Delrious on Vimeo. Hat tip to Penguin Wanderings.

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Adaptations Biology Mating & Reproduction New Research

Why Are There No Super Whales?

Dr. M November 30, 2009 allometricBlue Whalebody sizeconstraintsevolutionfeedingisometriclunge feedingmassRB Editor's Selectionwhales

The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger?  The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling.  To appreciate…

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Art Cephalopods

Have You Scrubbed Your Cephalopod This Morning?

Kevin Zelnio November 27, 2009 CephalopodDeviant ArtOctopus

Squidy by ~ced66 on deviantART Hat tip to @sevenbullsboy on Twitter.

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Organisms

ZOMG GIANT WURMZ N SEESTARZ FEEEDING FRENZY!1!1!!!1

Kevin Zelnio November 26, 2009 AntarcticaApril 1stBBCMcMurdo SoundNemerteaNemertineParbolasia corrugatusSea StarSeal Carcassstarfish

Seriously cool footage at the BBC. Also with a nice little accompanying article that you should read. In the sequence filmed for the Life series,…

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Adaptations Biology New Research Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner

Dr. M November 23, 2009 AnatomyCrabDietFungiGalatheidaeGut MicrofloraMunidopsisMunidopsis andamaSquat LobsterWoodWood Fall

A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land.  Most deep-sea dwellers rely…

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Conservation & Environment Expeditions New Research Open Access Organisms Scientist! Seamount Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor

Dr. M November 23, 2009 abyssCensus of Marine LifeCoMLSeamounttaxonomy

Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on…

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Fish Organisms Pictures and Movies

Deepest Fish On Film

Dr. M November 15, 2009 Baited Camera Trapsdeepfishfood falllanderPacificsnailfishTrench

In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above,  Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found…

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Organisms Pictures and Movies

Giant Stingray On Film

Dr. M November 15, 2009 BBCgiant stingraysmalleyestingray

BBC videographers caught a giant stingray on film for the first time. The smalleye, shown in the video,  is the largest of all stingrays reaching…

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Adaptations Fish Organisms Pictures and Movies

Crazy Fish Heads

Dr. M November 15, 2009 biomechanicsbonefishfish headjaw protrusionligamentnoveltyskullslingjaw wrass

Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body…

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