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Wooden Homes on the Seafloor Yield Insights Into the Impacts of Climate Change

Dr. M September 12, 2018 climate change diversity donuts Invertebrate mmmm....donuts Niche Wood Fall wood puns

Nearly two miles below the ocean’s surface, we are building new worlds. You might be surprised that these ecospheres are wooden—little log cabins hosting a…

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Malacology Monthly: Going Deep

Douglas Long December 28, 2015 conchology deep ocean deep sea evolution Gastropod Invertebrate invertebrate paleontology malacology marine biology marine ecology mollusk shell shells seashells Snail

Sub-Neritic Gentrification For November we will be doing some deep thinking about deep-sea mollusks in an attempt to understand the complex history and adaptations of…

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Malacology Monthly: Inside-Out

Douglas Long October 16, 2015 adaptation conchology Invertebrate invertebrate zoology malacology mollusks sea shells shells snails

This Open-House Special brings you inside the modern homes of today’s most popular marine mollusks Are you old enough to remember the show MTV Cribs, where…

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The Animals of the Musashi Battleship

Dr. M March 11, 2015 battleship Invertebrate Musahsi Paul Allen shipwreck Sibuyan Sea

On November 1st, 1940 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched the Yamato Class Battleship the Musashi. She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerfully…

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A New Inside Anus Found Very Deep

Dr. M August 7, 2014 'Merica 13 year old boys anus Invertebrate muscle car taxnonomy

One of the most obscure invertebrates of all of the ocean is the Entoprocta. It doesn’t take a student of Latin to understand that it’s…

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Art Organisms

Octopi Wall Street!

Miriam Goldstein November 10, 2011 99 percent diversity Invertebrate Invertebrate Wars Occupy OWS

This lovely piece of art, by graduate students Laurel Hiebert and Kira Treibergs with artwork by Marley Jarvis, made the rounds last week. We are…

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Molluscs, now with 100% more awesum

Dr. M March 7, 2010 aplacophora Arthropoda Bernoulli body size echinoderms Gastropod Invertebrate Invertebrate Wars logarithimic spiral Mollusc Radula shell Vampire Squid

A blog war is starting to develop again. No I am not talking about this one. I am talking about the Great Invertebrate Wars. Everything was…

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Organisms Pictures and Movies

TGIF: Polychaete

Dr. M March 27, 2009 holdfast Invertebrate kelp Pacific Polychaete the University of Nebraska-Lincoln video zoology

Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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The 10 Greatest Web Videos of Marine Invertebrates

Dr. M February 22, 2009 Annelida Barnacle Cephalopod Coral deep sea Echinodermata feeding fish Giant Isopod girlfriends Invertebrate Octopus puppies rotifer salmon sex shark sponge video

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…

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Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought

Dr. M February 19, 2009 conservation Coral Invertebrate Open Access plos one Seamount sponge

About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…

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