SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)
SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s no specific scientific […]
marine biology
Shrimp that should not be!
The Associated Press plunges into the icy waters of the unknown to present us with an unspeakable creature… a shrimp that should not be: Six […]
SONG: Staring
SONG: “Staring” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye,” LiveScience , 28 Dec 2009, […]
Spiny eyes. With legs and mouths.
LiveScience illuminates a mystery I’m not sure I even knew existed – how is it that sea urchins can see without eyes: Although sea urchins […]
Blue whale basso is really profundo.
Discovery gets deep in its musing about a cetacean mystery. The songs of the blue whale have been getting progressively lower in pitch: In some […]
Science Art: Mantis Shrimp by R.A. Lydekker.
The mantis shrimp, Stomatopoda, is one of the most terrifying sea creatures under three feet long. At least to me. They move exceptionally fast and […]
Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.
Wired has a lovely story about a charismatic creature that has no mouth, lives inside dead whale bones and is part of a very complicated […]
DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs”
Discover has an interesting bit of unexpected biomimicry. The mantis shrimp (probably the scariest marine predator less than 3 feet long) has an unusual way […]
Another Yangzi casualty.
The BBC depresses me again with a story about a unique Chinese fish that’s probably already extinct: A number of fish species vie for the […]
Science Art: Discoaster surculus.
Click to embiggen This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 […]
Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink: “It is difficult to imagine […]
Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and […]
Repeat after ussss: SQUID is FRIEND.
Science Daily has gallantly leaped to the defense of the sadly misunderstood Humboldt squid: For years Seibel has heard stories claiming that Humboldt squid will […]
Big fish! Hungry fish!
You may have heard of the giant prehistoric shark called megalodon. And maybe other megafauna, like Megalosaurus or even the mighty mechanical Megasaurus. But LiveScience […]
Monster Jellyfish RISE!
The Discovery Channel salutes the new owners of Planet Earth, now that we humans have eliminated the fish that were keeping them in check. Whales, […]