At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a…
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First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878Yicaris – Progenitor of the Crustacea
Finding any new fossil is rare. Finding invertebrate fossils is made even more rare because of the squishy nature of most invertebrates. Sometimes the wandering…
View More Yicaris – Progenitor of the CrustaceaA World Inside a Coconut
This is rewritten from one of my favorite contributions from The Other 95%. ————————— In November 2003, while an undergrad at University of California at…
View More A World Inside a CoconutResearchBlogCast #11: A Population Genetics Species Concept?
A recent PLoS One paper by Birky and colleagues attempts to define species for asexual animals using the theoretical framework that has been developed by…
View More ResearchBlogCast #11: A Population Genetics Species Concept?Jellyfish: Pretty from a Distance
A link from one of readers (thanks Ashley!) pointed us to a story on MSNBC about a very large Lion’s Mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) that…
View More Jellyfish: Pretty from a DistanceDetermining the Fate of Carbon in a Mixotrophic Anemone
It has been known for a long time that some anemones form symbiotic relationships with Zooxanthellae. For a while it was assumed that the anemones…
View More Determining the Fate of Carbon in a Mixotrophic AnemoneHow to Retard Scientific Progress
I found a great quote and analogy from an essay published in Current Biology by Peter Lawrence titled The Mismeasurement of Science. This essay takes…
View More How to Retard Scientific ProgressFemale Urochordates Have Few, If Any, Inhibitions
Yep, that’s right. They get it on with any male gamete that passes their way. They just don’t give a [rhymes with duck]. Boom chaka-laka-boom.…
View More Female Urochordates Have Few, If Any, InhibitionsPouring Oil on ‘Troubled Waters’
We love getting interesting emails from our readers. Some are complaints about our (mostly mine) colorful language, many are emails telling us how they appreciate…
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