The Associated Press plunges into the icy waters of the unknown to present us with an unspeakable creature… a shrimp that should not be:
… Read the rest “Shrimp that should not be!”Six hundred feet (183 metres) below the ice
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SOURCE: “Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye,” LiveScience , … Read the rest “SONG: Staring”
LiveScience illuminates a mystery I’m not sure I even knew existed – how is it that sea urchins can see without eyes:
… Read the rest “Spiny eyes. With legs and mouths.”Although sea urchins don’t have any problems avoiding
Discovery gets deep in its musing about a cetacean mystery. The songs of the blue whale have been getting progressively lower in pitch:
… Read the rest “Blue whale basso is really profundo.”In some cases, the pitch of their songs has dropped
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 have lots of spiky, sharp parts that are… Read the rest “Science Art: Mantis Shrimp by R.A. Lydekker.”
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 family:
… Read the rest “Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.”Since the discovery by Vrijenhoek and other
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 of looking at the world…… Read the rest “DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs””
The BBC depresses me again with a story about a unique Chinese fish that’s probably already extinct:
… Read the rest “Another Yangzi casualty.”A number of fish species vie for the position of the world’s largest freshwater
This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 and making future … Read the rest “Science Art: Discoaster surculus.”
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.”“It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft
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 lots of single-celled organisms multiplying… Read the rest “Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)”
Science Daily has gallantly leaped to the defense of the sadly misunderstood Humboldt squid:
… Read the rest “Repeat after ussss: SQUID is FRIEND.”For years Seibel has heard stories claiming that Humboldt squid will devour a dog in minutes
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 is bringing… Read the rest “Big fish! Hungry fish!”
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, dolphins, even giant squid are powerful… Read the rest “Monster Jellyfish RISE!”
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo:
… Read the rest “Sushi ain’t green.”As European fishing fleets prepare to begin the two-month
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