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…
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Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs
Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins. They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400…
View More Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs100 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 SpermTGIF: 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 RosselliniLife Without Gonads and Toes
The Loriciferans were first described in 1983 and since then around 20 species were described with at least 80 species waiting in the wings for…
View More Life Without Gonads and ToesBarnacle Sex
No sex week would be complete without the showing of Randy Olson’s seminal film, Barnacles Tell No Lies (1991)
View More Barnacle SexSex 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…
View More Sex At Vents: Lights On or Off?Lighted Whoopie In The Sea: Repost
In the deep dark sea, bioluminescence is the name of game. Its central role is unequivocal for many organisms. Do different sexes of species display…
View More Lighted Whoopie In The Sea: RepostSea turtles get it on, and on, and on…
Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea Turtle…
View More Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on…I have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.
Post by Shawn M. Arellano. Dr. Shawn Arellano is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her PhD research at…
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