You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way…
View More Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking OverTag: Best of Zelnio
From the Editor’s Desk: Benefits of Bottom Trawling and Other Assorted Fairy Tales
Apparently there is a study underway that is setting out to empirically determine the ole adage that trawling is bad for the environment, as reported…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Benefits of Bottom Trawling and Other Assorted Fairy TalesFrom the Editor’s Desk: Quantifying Outreach to the Cult of Science
While I had a completely different post already 60% written for this week’s column, I was struck by a few recent posts about various ways…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Quantifying Outreach to the Cult of ScienceFrom the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate ContrarianismTo Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification
I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. […] To…
View More To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean AcidificationGreat Migrations
National Geographic embarked on an ambitious two and a half year film project, covering over 420,000 square miles, and telling the story of animal movements…
View More Great MigrationsNew Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsThe Disease of Plastic Water Bottles
This is a post in appreciation of Blog for Action Day’s 2010 theme – Water. People are made mostly of water and thus we need…
View More The Disease of Plastic Water BottlesSea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex
Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography…
View More Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and SexPenguins Immediately Benefit From MPA
There is much buzz these days about marine protected areas (MPAs) and no-take zones. We are approaching the age of assessment. There has been enough…
View More Penguins Immediately Benefit From MPA