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…
View More These Are A Few Of My Favorite Species: Gasflame NudibranchTag: Sea Slug
Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used Words
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…
View More Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used WordsWhen 2 becomes 12: Cryptic species need some love like they’ve never needed love before
A “species” is a hypothesis. And for microscopic critters, this hypothesis is very often wrong. Everyone knows I despise charismatic megafauna (especially dolphins). I will…
View More When 2 becomes 12: Cryptic species need some love like they’ve never needed love beforeCan’t Touch This
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…
View More Can’t Touch ThisThe Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lug
I first discovered Dr. Pat Krug when he gave a talk at Scripps and revealed that he had named a new species of sea slug…
View More The Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lugMolluscan sexcapades cause unrest in Australia
[EDIT: Except the slugs are in New Zealand, not Australia – brain fail! Sorry to all Down Under. See comments below for an invigorating discussion…
View More Molluscan sexcapades cause unrest in AustraliaLynx Nudibranch Mows Down Some Hydroids
Hat tip to Fish and Aquatic News. From one of my favorite Vimeo uploaders Morphologic Studios. ‘The Lynx Nudibranch’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo. ‘The Lynx…
View More Lynx Nudibranch Mows Down Some HydroidsSea 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, too