Sushi ain’t green.
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo: As European fishing fleets […]
marine biology
Hurdia victoria: SHRIMPZILLA!
PhysOrg once again brings prehistoric monsters to life: Although the first fragments were described nearly one hundred years ago, they were assumed to be part […]
SONG: Visibility
SONG: “Visibility” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/LiveScience, 23 Feb 2009, as used in […]
Roboctopus!
New Scientist introduces our latest underwater overlords – or at least the blueprints for one – in a story about Italian researchers who’re designing the […]
Stingray, I can… whoah.
The British press has been all over this, but a fisherman (and biologist) landed a record-sized stingray in Thailand: Guardian: A British angler – with […]
Barreleye, I can see inside your head.
If they could do this with cats, a million TV watchers would pay $1,000 each. MSNBC reports on a fish with a see-through head: The […]
Snowballs and Killer Whales
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 […]
Dolphin Tools.
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 […]
Solar Sea Slug
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 […]
Science Art: Argonauta, Webster’s New International
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
Click to embiggen 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.
Click to embiggen slightly. Some call them sea slugs, but they’re so striking, so sensual, that nudibranch has to be the better term. From the […]
Science Art: Gammarellus angulosus – Near Woods Hole
Click to embiggen. A crustacean with character. From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.