Guest Post: This past winter my good friend and excellent nature photographer Michael Ready and I were out exploring the Rocky Intertidal zone at Cabrillo…
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Tag: Nudibranch
The Science of Sea Bunnies: You’ll Never Believe The Top Ten List We Created To Get You To Visit Our Website.
Recently a friend brought to my attention that the Internet was losing its collective mind over “sea bunnies”. Googling, “sea bunny” I found articles at International Business Times,…
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About 350 million years ago during the Carboniferous, a group of snails took a new evolutionary route, one that eventually resulted in a complete loss…
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An Oceanic Ode
This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral…
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There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…
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Another epic post from Alex Warneke, aka lil’ A Disposable nudibranch penises are all the rage this month thanks to a study published in the…
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Sea slugs have self esteem, too
Twitter was all aflutter yesterday over a foul slandering of the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus. The culprit was an Australian article discussing these sea slugs…
View More Sea slugs have self esteem, tooA Nudi on David’s Wood
David is a graduate student in my lab. He wants to know what types of animals colonize wood and whale bones in the deep sea…
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