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 the stars where they belong:
… Read the rest “I, for one, welcome our new astronauts.”So, okay,
SONG: “Grains of Aragonite.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on Primitive sea creature sports eyes made of… Read the rest “SONG: Grains of Aragonite”
LiveScience takes a hard look at the stony gaze of the chiton:
… Read the rest “Eyes of stone.”While scientists had discovered the hundreds of eye-like structures on the surface of this armored mollusk, called a chiton,
A pair of chitons, playing catch. Or sleeping. Or enjoying a good meal. Or singing a chiton opera.
With chitons, it’s very hard to tell the difference.
The image is… Read the rest “Science Art: Chiton from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s”
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 of Mexico. So let’s just not talk… Read the rest “Obama’s dead dolphin problem.”
The whole collection of Azerbaijan collectors’ stamps is full of scientific illustration treasure – butterflies, dirigibles, mushrooms….
And “treasure”… Read the rest “Science Art: Azerbaijan stamp, 500m – Marine gastropod Corolla spectabilis, May 1995.”
SONG: “Leatherback, Crossing.”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Secret voyages of leatherback… Read the rest “SONG: Leatherback, Crossing.”
The Guardian knows where the world’s largest sea turtles go:
… Read the rest “Following leatherbacks.”Matthew Witt, a researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, led the project. “Despite
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 sonar underwater:
… Read the rest “Invisible squid”…[B]y putting
I am not making that up. Treehugger.com has the photographic evidence of flying squid:
… Read the rest “Squid can fly.”“From our observations it seemed like squid engaged in behaviors to prolong their flight,”
I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696”A relatively benign merman complete with scales caught in the Baltic
Really. Check out what the BBC says about our one-time balloon-headed neighbor to the seas:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric dolphin had a big head.”A new type of dolphin with a short, spoon-shaped nose and high, bulbous forehead has been identified
This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The Brothers Dalziel were the most celebrated (perhaps)… Read the rest “Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel”
The marine biology-watchers at CBS would like to remind us of one of our planet’s under-appreciated treasures:
… Read the rest “On the sublime significance of a load of whale crap.”A new study suggests that whale excrement plays a vital role in protecting
The Telegraph dives four and a half miles into a vast undersea dead zone… and surfaces with a ghostly new species of fish:
… Read the rest “Ghostly fish of the dead zone.”The new type of snailfish was found living at a depth of 22,966ft
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