New work in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society indicates that ammonites were likely preyed upon beaked squids. The Chamouth Mudstone Formation on the…
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The Evolution of Iron-Clad Samurai Snails With Gold Feet
It is told in the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai At the time of the attack on the castle at Shimabara, Tazaki Geki was…
View More The Evolution of Iron-Clad Samurai Snails With Gold FeetGuide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern Ocean
The Cephalopod beak guide for the Southern Ocean. ..we interrupt this post so that Dr. M can perform the rare dance of the geek and…
View More Guide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern OceanSimple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
The 285 macrourid fishes, the rattails, whiptails, and grenadiers, are one of, if not the, most abundant fish in the deep. You cannot throw…well anything…without…
View More Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor CarrionWorst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and Constraints
It’s been eight days since Miriam posted at Double XX This Wired piece on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs also made me want to smash…
View More Worst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and ConstraintsBonus TGIF: Orca Attack
Orca’s doing what they do best…working together to be voracious predators. Not so cute and cuddly?
View More Bonus TGIF: Orca AttackEasy Big Fella
Way before even your great-great-grandpappy was born and Ohio was ocean instead of cornfields, it was the “Age of the Fishes”. During this Devonian (400-360…
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