Science Daily goes deep (well, a little deep) on sea robins, the fish known for having little legs they use to scurry across the ocean floor. Apparently those “legs” are actually… Read the rest “Fish legs taste the sea floor.”
These are illustrations from “Notes on Species of Sagitta Collected on a Voyage from England to Australia” by B.B. Gray, as published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society… Read the rest “Science Art: Sagitta atlantica and Sagitta equatoria, 1922.”
Scientific American listens in on beluga conversations, thanks to a new dictionary that itemizes the “words” formed by their squishy, shape-able forehead “melons”… Read the rest “White whales talk with their foreheads.”
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales… Read the rest “SONG: Great Big Love”
The Guardian runs a science story about a milestone in marine biology – the first time humpback whales have ever been caught on camera in the act of mating. But it’s a story with… Read the rest “Humpback sex photographed for the first time – and it’s gay.”
PhysOrg has another delightful story about prehistoric invertebrates. This time, researchers have discovered a half-a-billion-year-old enormous predator worm from the icy reaches… Read the rest “Giant, ancient predator worms discovered in Arctic Greenland”
“The efforts made by oversober scientists to reduce such marvels to coldly reasonable origins have in a few specific cases been only too successful,” wrote George Gaylord… Read the rest “Science Art: Sea Sirens, by A.A. Jansson, 1930.”
Scientific Frontline waxes optimistic about Flinders University research into the youth-prolonging properties of washed-up Australian brown seaweed – specifically, as a source… Read the rest “Rejuvenating seaweed.”
I thought this was a nautilus, but it might be a moon snail. It’s a mollusk of some kind, with a gracefully curved shell and a complex, fleshy body, all rendered as simply as possible … Read the rest “Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.”
Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still… Read the rest “Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.”
Ars Technica gets a first glimpse at the language of cephalopods, with the discovery that each octopus (which can change the pattern of its skin at will) has its own unique pattern of stripes… Read the rest “An octopus will say its name in stripes.”
Ars Technica reports on an underwater electronic neurological breakthrough. A group of researchers from Naples, Okinawa, and further afield who have used implanted recording electrodes… Read the rest “Brain-reading electrodes in a free-ranging octopus.”
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy”.
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SOURCE: This has no source in scientific research; it’s a penitential cover of a song by a band named Werk… Read the rest “SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)”
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!
That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The legs and antenna are all its own. Evibacus princeps… Read the rest “Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019”
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