Doctor dolphin
Georgetown University researchers want to know why – and how – dolphins are so good at healing themselves: A dolphin’s ability to heal quickly from […]
marine biology
I, for one, welcome our new astronauts.
They’re squid. No, really. Science 2.0 has blown the whistle on the final Space Shuttle mission – the one that finally brings squid back to […]
SONG: Grains of Aragonite
SONG: “Grains of Aragonite.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Primitive sea creature sports eyes made of rock, LiveScience, […]
Eyes of stone.
LiveScience takes a hard look at the stony gaze of the chiton: While scientists had discovered the hundreds of eye-like structures on the surface of […]
Science Art: Chiton from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s
Click to embiggen A pair of chitons, playing catch. Or sleeping. Or enjoying a good meal. Or singing a chiton opera. With chitons, it’s very […]
Obama’s dead dolphin problem.
The U.S. government would rather you not, according to Digital Journal, worry your caring little head about the dead dolphins washing up in the Gulf […]
Science Art: Azerbaijan stamp, 500m – Marine gastropod Corolla spectabilis, May 1995.
The whole collection of Azerbaijan collectors’ stamps is full of scientific illustration treasure – butterflies, dirigibles, mushrooms…. And “treasure” is not an exaggeration. 500 Azerbaijan […]
SONG: Leatherback, Crossing.
SONG: “Leatherback, Crossing.”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters”, Guardian, 5 […]
Following leatherbacks.
The Guardian knows where the world’s largest sea turtles go: Matthew Witt, a researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of […]
Invisible squid
Science News spreads the news of an underwater arms race. Sonar specialist T. Aran Mooney of Woods Hole has discovered that squid are invisible to […]
Squid can fly.
I am not making that up. Treehugger.com has the photographic evidence of flying squid: “From our observations it seemed like squid engaged in behaviors to […]
Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696
Click to embiggen I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could. A relatively benign merman […]
Prehistoric dolphin had a big head.
Really. Check out what the BBC says about our one-time balloon-headed neighbor to the seas: A new type of dolphin with a short, spoon-shaped nose […]
Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel
Click to embiggen This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The […]
On the sublime significance of a load of whale crap.
The marine biology-watchers at CBS would like to remind us of one of our planet’s under-appreciated treasures: A new study suggests that whale excrement plays […]