All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called…
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A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic InseminationWho’s your daddy?
Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access…
View More Who’s your daddy?From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce
In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe…
View More From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=AwesomesauceSame Girl
Yo Ush, What up Kels Wanna introduce you to this girl, think I really love this girl, Yeah? Man she so fine, Straight up dawg?…
View More Same GirlWho likes protandric hermaphrodites?
Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we…
View More Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
View More 100 Million Year Old Giant SpermAre sea urchins bad parents?
Sea urchin offspring have one of the coolest names in the plankton. They’re called “pluteus” larvae. Yet, according to this narrator, urchins don’t know or…
View More Are sea urchins bad parents?TGIF: Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini
Below is all of Season 2 of Green Porno. All of Season 1 and behind the scenes videos can be seen at the Sundance Channel.…
View More TGIF: Green Porno with Isabella RosselliniSex At Vents: Lights On or Off?
Post by Jon Copley. Dr. Jon Copley is a lecturer in marine ecology at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He is also director…
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