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 […]
marine biology
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 […]
Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)
Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts: “We have taken […]
Armor-plated plankton getting weaker. And so is the planet.
The world’s future supply of chalk is threatened by global warming. That’s what I take away from this LiveScience report on how the souring of […]
Something is killing lots of dolphins in the Gulf.
Discovery News says the 714 reported dolphin deaths are just the tip of a much larger iceberg: NOAA declared the die-off an “Unusual Mortality Event” […]
Dolphins are people too.
Or so the Belfast Telegraph says, with a report on scientists devising a document outlining dolphin rights: A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation […]
Flying squid. Yeah, that’s a relaxing concept.
Nature eases no one’s mind when the revered journal explains it’s actually more efficient for some squid fly than to swim: Squid of many species […]
SONG: Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent
SONG: “Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: Squid Pro Crow. SOURCE: Based on “Exotic creatures discovered living at […]