We didn’t mean to make this week all about parasites, honest. It just happened that way. Rebecca wrote a thing, and then I – being…
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I’ll see your horrifying crab barnacle and raise you a heart eel
This was originally posted at alistairdove.com June 21, 2010. To see another bizarre parasitic relationship, check out Rebecca Helm’s recent piece on the marvelous world…
View More I’ll see your horrifying crab barnacle and raise you a heart eelLOL Ocean Giants
As part of Sizing Ocean Giants, I asked students last week to generate LOLCat style memes for their study organisms. The Rules: It must include…
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Fishes of Instagram #throwbackthurday
Have some of your own to add? Drop us a line below. Sources: Wikimedia Commons, Ron McPeak, Judi333, Trine Galloway, East Bay Express, Shutterstock
View More Fishes of Instagram #throwbackthurdayYou want mustard with that clam?
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report put out by the Centers for Disease Control makes for fascinating reading sometimes. One came out recently that contains…
View More You want mustard with that clam?10 Reasons Why Bone Eating Worms Are F’n Awesome
The deep-sea Osedax bone-devouring worms could easily have been the poster child for Deep-Sea News instead of the Giant Squid. Below is list of 10…
View More 10 Reasons Why Bone Eating Worms Are F’n AwesomeExtraordinary dolphin footage
In my inbox today was this video of a remarkable bit of animal behaviour captured on video. It shows the famous manta night dive in…
View More Extraordinary dolphin footageQuick! Someone call the Fashion Police.
We have a fashion emergency. White after labor day? No. Horizontal stripes? Not exactly. Wardrobe malfunction? Definitely No. Too much skin showing at the Grammys…
View More Quick! Someone call the Fashion Police.Narwhals Gone Wild.
Have you ever laid in your bed at night, dreaming what your favorite entertainment personalities would look like re-imagined as narwhals? Well wonder no more my…
View More Narwhals Gone Wild.Underfunded academic, seeking tenure, attempts to steal research ship
David Aldridge is a phytoplankton-loving marine biology PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. Also the founder and editor of Words in mOcean, a…
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