Echinoderms are one of the most highly derived groups of animals with many species as significant components of several marine communities. They’re classified by…
View More Veins of Water: The Evolution of the Echinoderm Water-Vascular SystemTag: Echinodermata
Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow Up
Some of us never grow up. In fact I am writing this now in my Aquaman pajamas while laying on Return of the Jedi bedsheets*.…
View More Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow UpThe Kingdoms of Science
BibliOdyssey is always full eclectic book art. Just what you need to achieve your geek fix for today. Behold the illustrations from ‘Dictionnaire Classique Des…
View More The Kingdoms of ScienceChris Mah on Oil’s Impact on Marine Invertebrates
Daniel Brown brought my attention to this Ocean Portal video featuring the Echinoblog’s Chris Mah on the potential impact of oil on the Gulf of…
View More Chris Mah on Oil’s Impact on Marine InvertebratesCoral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
View More Coral and Brittle Stars, Together ForeverTGIF: Echinoderms Aren’t So Bad
This animation from Daniel Brown at Biochemical Soul makes me come close to actually liking echinoderms. Well..at least I still like them more than mammals. …
View More TGIF: Echinoderms Aren’t So BadIt Must Be “Hump” Day in the Blogosphere
Christopher Taylor at the Catologue of Organisms (one of the handful of blogs I rush to when I see an update in my Reader!) has…
View More It Must Be “Hump” Day in the BlogosphereThe 10 Greatest Web Videos of Marine Invertebrates
In no certain order… 10. Those barnacles just ain’t feeding! This is red hot barnacle copulation! Turn the lights down low, everything’s goin’ to be…
View More The 10 Greatest Web Videos of Marine InvertebratesEchinodermata Monographs
BibliOdyssey has some beautiful plates of echinoderms from manuscripts by Louis Agassiz from the 1840s. Check out their site for more and where to go…
View More Echinodermata MonographsKick off ’09 with a Marine Invert Calendar and Clock
SCAMIT (Southern California of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists) has released the best calender of the year – a marine invertebrate calendar! Long time DSN reader Leslie…
View More Kick off ’09 with a Marine Invert Calendar and Clock