Giant squid CLONE ARMY. Or, well, at least a tight family.
BBC reveals that giant squid, no matter where they’re found or how different from each other they look, are all genetically really close to one […]
marine biology
Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.
Click to embiggen I couldn’t resist this when I saw the name of the book it came from: Italian Food, by Elizabeth David. It’s an […]
So why is red tide killing our manatees?
NBC News is wondering what’s behind the massive blooms of marine microorganisms that are killing so many manatees: Florida wildlife officials report that 149 of […]
Want a cleaner Mississippi? Put some mussel into it!
New Scientist reveals how scientists are looking into the muddy, murky water of the Mississippi River… by getting mussels with electronic backpacks to do the […]
Giant squid filmed at home.
Discovery doesn’t have much to say about it other than, in essence, YES! FINALLY! WE FILMED A GIANT SQUID! Mankind finally confronts the greatest mystery […]
SONG: Complicated Man
SONG: “Complicated Man.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep sea”, Nature, 9 […]
Carnivorous sponges found. (As if you didn’t have enough to worry about.)
Nature goes deep, deep into the subconscious pit of our fears… or at least the Pacific Ocean… to present the underwater answer to the Venus […]
Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move. [via]
Whale speaks human.
Nature listens to the strange tale of the beluga that sang like a human: “Who told me to get out?” asked a diver, surfacing from […]
The Force is strong in this worm.
Thrilled, Guardian is to introduce to its readers a new submarine species they’re calling the Jedi acorn worm: Yoda purpurata is one of three new […]
Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.
And, says the Sydney Morning Herald, more than three-quarters of the reef will have vanished within a decade: A long-term investigation of the reef by […]
They built a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart.
Nature voyages to the Island of Dr. Moreau… or at least in the same region… to speak with a scientist who enthusiastically made a living […]
Three-hour sex sessions exhaust squid.
I can do no better than that LiveScience headline. Why is it so many of the most fascinating cephalopod research stories are about their multi-limbed […]
Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.
Dark field microscopy is the art of using indirect light to illuminate specimens under your microscope lens; because the light is indirect, it doesn’t shine […]
Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.
Alexander Anderson, medical doctor and illustrator, is remembered as America’s first wood engraver. He helped Samuel Mitchill explain what that was wriggling on the end […]