Ghostly fish of the dead zone.
The Telegraph dives four and a half miles into a vast undersea dead zone… and surfaces with a ghostly new species of fish: The new […]
marine biology
Science Art: Ocean plate, large, Andy Lowry
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 […]
Jellyfish engines.
U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish: Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they […]
Conching dolphins.
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt: Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on […]
SONG: Rising Like the Sun
SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps to ‘swim towards […]
Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.
Click to embiggen This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not […]
Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight
Click to embiggen A close-up from another page of Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. This may be mistitled – other creatures on the […]
SONG: nobody else can hear
SONG: “nobody else can hear”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Super squid sex organ discovered”, BBC News, 7 July 2010, […]
Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)
BBC recently covered the salacious details when scientists discovered a squid’s enormous sexual organ: The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its […]
Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.
BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light: The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to […]
We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.
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 […]
Oysters in the spill.
The Tallahassee Democrat demonstrates how the Deepwater Horizon disaster is affecting what we can still learn about sea life: ST. TERESA — Thunder clattered and […]
10 limbs for hugging!
The Christian Science Monitor (reprinting LiveScience) has published the greatest science headline I think I’ve ever read: School-bus sized squid actually quite friendly, study finds. […]
What was I saying about whales?
BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them: A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it […]
Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.
Click to embiggen Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, […]