Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
Click to embiggen Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes […]
marine biology
Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name and […]
Whispering baby whales.
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers: Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their […]
America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.
National Geographic reports on China’s boom in marine parks, including a new program to breed killer whales in captivity: The Chimelong Group, one of the […]
Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.
PhysOrg reports on the discovery that sharks aren’t quite the “lone wolves of the sea” that they seem. In fact, sharks form social networks and […]
American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean: Scientists estimate that […]
Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries […]
Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix
Click to embiggen vastly Not your average seahorse. They’re pretty cool. And totally real! Not made up or anything!
“Goddess of the Yangzi” might not be extinct after all.
The Guardian has an optimistic story out of central China, with news that the baiji – the Yangzi River dolphin, one of the oldest aquatic […]
The sun has risen, the fish are singing….
Growing up interacting with fish called “grunts,” this doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still kind of cool. New Scientist captures the chorus […]
Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.
Click to embiggen Big picture, small crab. They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa. This one was drawn […]
Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.
Fish, in families. Fish, in schools. These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when […]
This shark is older than the United States.
It was 1744, Nature reports, when this sleepy, small-headed Somniosus microcephalus … when this long-swimming, short-sighted Greenland shark came into the world – if not […]
Leatherbacks get around. Now, they’ve found a new beach.
Miami Herald reports on some hope for an endangered species – the first known leatherback nest (with hatchlings!) found in the Florida Keys: The nest […]
SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016, as […]