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Snowballs and Killer Whales

11 February 2009 grant b 0

Researchers studying the McMurdo Sound killer whales may have started something among the orcas:

LiveScience, via Yahoo:One of the whales, probably an adult female, was lolling in front

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Dolphin Tools.

11 December 2008 grant b 1

Science News reports on new findings that our intelligent neighbors to the sea have finally been spotted using tools:

These dolphins dive to the bottom of deep channels and poke their sponge-covered

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Solar Sea Slug

2 December 2008 grant b 0

New Scientist loves nudibranchs… especially when they can generate their own power from sunlight:

Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous leaf-shaped body,

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Science Art: Argonauta, Webster’s New International

23 November 2008 grant b 0

From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]

Science Art: Dykeri, fig 6, Nordisk familjebok

9 November 2008 grant b 0



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In my deep-sea diving suit.

Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.

Science Art: Polycera atra, Lateral View by F.M. MacFarland.

26 October 2008 grant b 0



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Some call them sea slugs, but they’re so striking, so sensual, that nudibranch has to be the better term.

From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.

Science Art: Gammarellus angulosus – Near Woods Hole

5 October 2008 grant b 0



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A crustacean with character.

From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.

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