Sharks eat whatever they want. Even songbirds.
National Geographic ruins the illusion that maybe larks and mockingbirds might be safe from shark attacks. Nope. Songbirds are being found in tiger sharks’ stomachs: […]
marine biology
Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598
A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales. This […]
Creatures of the Dragon Vent.
Guardian is taking a closer look at some of the strangest living things from one of the most peculiar places on Earth: In the first […]
Science Art: Wels (Catfish) by Heinrich Harder, from Unsere Süßwasserfische by Dr. Emil Walter, 1913.
Click to embiggen A color plate from the BioDiversity Library’s edition of Our Freshwater Fish, first published in Leipzig in 1913. Heinrich Harder, as well […]
Crab grows garden on its claws
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws: The yeti crab — so-called because […]
Science Art: Manatees Swimming by Henry W. Elliott
Click to embiggen From the NOAA Photo Library, Historic Fisheries Collection, in the somewhat questionably titled ” Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals” section. Are […]
Science Art: Examining Plankton Haul, Plankton Hydrographic Cruise, Research Vessel Atlantis by O.E. Sette, 1935
Marine biology from the Diesel Age. Crowded organisms, barely visible through the equipment. (And I’m talking about the researchers.) Photo from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science […]
Living shoggoths.
MSNBC (among other sources) reports on the amorphous, multiform, shuddering things that live and ooze in a crawling chaos across the deepest ocean floor: Gigantic […]
Giant Squid, we salute you!
Giant Squid is a doom metal/sludge rock band (with a cello) that writes songs about humpback whale tongues and the violent mating habits of sharks. […]
Randy squid.
Not like the name. Like… you know. The squid the New York Times says are ready to get it on, however they can get it: […]
Angry fish.
Yeah, not birds. Discovery News writer Jennifer Viegas unveils the most bitter of best friends is likely to be the humble goldfish: A new study […]
Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915
Click to embiggen. Octopus up-skirts. For science. The provenance of this picture is a little hard to sum up easily: * I found it on […]
“Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates” by Squid Pro Crow.
Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates by Squid Pro Crow So. If you’ve noticed me referring obliquely to a “special project” lately, or to “having […]
Coral killer: It’s sewage.
Science reveals the cause of the shoreline-threatening epidemic of coral decline. It’s simple – the reefs are sick to death of our crap: Nine years […]