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 illustration comes from a series… Read the rest “Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598”
Guardian is taking a closer look at some of the strangest living things from one of the most peculiar places on Earth:
… Read the rest “Creatures of the Dragon Vent.”In the first ever expedition to explore and take samples from the “Dragon
A color plate from the BioDiversity Library’s edition of Our Freshwater Fish, first published in Leipzig in 1913.
Heinrich Harder, as well as illustrating natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Wels (Catfish) by Heinrich Harder, from Unsere Süßwasserfische by Dr. Emil Walter, 1913.”
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws:
… Read the rest “Crab grows garden on its claws”The yeti crab — so-called because of the hair-like bristles that cover its
From the NOAA Photo Library, Historic Fisheries Collection, in the somewhat questionably titled ” Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals” section.… Read the rest “Science Art: Manatees Swimming by Henry W. Elliott”
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Pierre Belon was a naturalist in the Renaissance. He graduated from medical school, then apprenticed himself to a botanist and wandered from France to Palestine, drawing… Read the rest “Science Art: Octopos vulgo Graeco, by Pierre Belon (Petri Bellonii Cenomani), in De aquatilibus, 1553”
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… Read the rest “Science Art: Examining Plankton Haul, Plankton Hydrographic Cruise, Research Vessel Atlantis by O.E. Sette, 1935”
MSNBC (among other sources) reports on the amorphous, multiform, shuddering things that live and ooze in a crawling chaos across the deepest ocean floor:
… Read the rest “Living shoggoths.”Gigantic amoebas have been found
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.
Plus, their songs have marine species’… Read the rest “Giant Squid, we salute you!”
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:
… Read the rest “Randy squid.”But for sheer amazement, the mating behavior of the squid, Octopoteuthis
Yeah, not birds. Discovery News writer Jennifer Viegas unveils the most bitter of best friends is likely to be the humble goldfish:
… Read the rest “Angry fish.”A new study has found that ornamental fish across the U.S.
Octopus up-skirts. For science.
The provenance of this picture is a little hard to sum up easily:
* I found it on a blog…
* that reposted it from a Smithsonian Institute… Read the rest “Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915”
So.
If you’ve noticed me referring obliquely to a “special project” lately, or to “having… Read the rest ““Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates” by Squid Pro Crow.”
Science reveals the cause of the shoreline-threatening epidemic of coral decline. It’s simple – the reefs are sick to death of our crap:
… Read the rest “Coral killer: It’s sewage.”Nine years ago, a research team led
Georgetown University researchers want to know why – and how – dolphins are so good at healing themselves:
… Read the rest “Doctor dolphin”A dolphin’s ability to heal quickly from a shark bite with
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