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Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?

Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we…

Coral Pictures and Movies

Coral, It’s Alive

Dr. M October 19, 2009 Coral gardening timelapse video

Coral gardening shown in a spectacular timelapse via videosift.com

Education Organisms

Behold the Jack of Diamonds!

Kevin Zelnio October 17, 2009 donation Donor's Choose MLML Mollusc Playing Cards tall ship The Other 95%

Eric at The Other 95% has been revealing a new card from an NSF funded mollusc playing card set. This set is awesome (disclaimer –…

Adaptations Organisms Pictures and Movies

A reminder that…

Dr. M October 8, 2009 Adaptations evolution excrement polar bears poo

…removal of waste represents over 550 million years of evolutionary adaptation to solve one of life’s most basic problems.

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The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the…

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Darwin and the Adventure – The Workshop

Kevin Zelnio October 1, 2009 Barcode of Life Beagle Project Brazil CBOL CoML Darwin and the Adventure DNA Barcoding ISS Magellan NASA Paraty Tocorime Victoria Workshop

Monday, Sept. 21, was a big day as it was the workshop that we had been preparing for. The goal of the workshop as stated…

Conservation & Environment Fish Music

The Shark Song

Kevin Zelnio September 28, 2009 ABC4 Andy Brandy Casagrande IV Great White National Geographic shark

From National Geographic: Filmmaker, Songwriter & Shark Junky – Andy Brandy Casagrande IV (ABC4) says: “IF I WAS A GREAT WHITE SHARK…I WOULDN’T BITE YOU”

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Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs

Dr. M September 27, 2009 Baja California Chimaera claspers Elasmobranchia genitals ghostshark Holocephali sex sexual organ shark

Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins. They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400…

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There Is No Marine Biodiversity Crisis…

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…because it has already happened. During a conference this summer, I heard Jeremy Jackson give talk. He highlighted the severely degraded state, as measured by…

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Biogeography of the Deep Sea

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“There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago…

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