Etsy crafter Andy Lowry, who sells under the “why girls go astray” shingle, created this delightful decoupage plate (that you eat from) using delightful Haeckel plates (that… Read the rest “Science Art: Ocean plate, large, Andy Lowry”
U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish:
… Read the rest “Jellyfish engines.”Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they swim…. these
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt:
… Read the rest “Conching dolphins.”Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on a routine survey when one of the
SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps… Read the rest “SONG: Rising Like the Sun”
This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not marine biologists – but scientists… Read the rest “Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.”
A close-up from another page of Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. This may be mistitled – other creatures on the same page were called… Read the rest “Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight”
SONG: “nobody else can hear”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Super squid sex organ discovered”… Read the rest “SONG: nobody else can hear”
BBC recently covered the salacious details when scientists discovered a squid’s enormous sexual organ:
… Read the rest “Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)”The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body,
BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light:
… Read the rest “Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.”The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to hide from predators and, as a result,
Fossil-hunters have found the remains of a creature they’re calling Melville’s Leviathan, AP reports. It’s a whale that, 12 million years ago, snacked on humpbacks… Read the rest “We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.”
The Tallahassee Democrat demonstrates how the Deepwater Horizon disaster is affecting what we can still learn about sea life:
… Read the rest “Oysters in the spill.”ST. TERESA — Thunder clattered and purple clouds gathered
The Christian Science Monitor (reprinting LiveScience) has published the greatest science headline I think I’ve ever read:
… Read the rest “10 limbs for hugging!”School-bus sized squid actually quite friendly, study
BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them:
… Read the rest “What was I saying about whales?”A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being
Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, Physalus cylindricus… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.”
SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s… Read the rest “SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)”
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