Science Art: Sea Sirens, by A.A. Jansson, 1930.
“The efforts made by oversober scientists to reduce such marvels to coldly reasonable origins have in a few specific cases been only too successful,” wrote […]
marine biology
Rejuvenating seaweed.
Scientific Frontline waxes optimistic about Flinders University research into the youth-prolonging properties of washed-up Australian brown seaweed – specifically, as a source of collagens that […]
Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.
I thought this was a nautilus, but it might be a moon snail. It’s a mollusk of some kind, with a gracefully curved shell and […]
Science Art: The First Larva, or the first free-swimming stage of the lobster, 1895.
Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity […]
Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.
PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still looking for […]
An octopus will say its name in stripes.
Ars Technica gets a first glimpse at the language of cephalopods, with the discovery that each octopus (which can change the pattern of its skin […]
Brain-reading electrodes in a free-ranging octopus.
Ars Technica reports on an underwater electronic neurological breakthrough. A group of researchers from Naples, Okinawa, and further afield who have used implanted recording electrodes […]
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no source in scientific research; it’s a penitential cover of a […]
Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster! That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The […]
Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.
EurekAlert shares a University of Queensland study that shows a turn to violence among courting whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Whales seeking mates are giving […]
Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.
These are sea anemones, from History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals by Phillip Henry Gosse. They are, according to the caption below: 1-5 Corynactis […]
Science Art: Scabrotrophon Species, Roland Houart, 2003.
These are seashells – murexes from the deep waters off Vanuatu called Scabrotrophon inspiratum. Belgian researcher Roland Houart wrote about them (and as far as […]
SONG: Sandpaper Skin
SONG: “Sandpaper Skin” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: PLOS One 19 Oct 2022, “Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications […]
Sharks to tuna: fearsome predator, convenient backscratcher.
PLOS One has revealed a strange secret of the sea, in which researchers have observed tuna and other pelagic (free-swimming) teleosts (bony fishes) intentionally rubbing […]
Probiotics are curing sick coral reefs.
University of Florida (go gator research!) is looking into a treatment that could help stop the loss of coral, which is nice because coral reefs […]