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”.
ARTIST: grant.
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”
EurekAlert shares a University of Queensland study that shows a turn to violence among courting whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Whales seeking mates are giving up courtship… Read the rest “Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.”
These are sea anemones, from History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals by Phillip Henry Gosse.
They are, according to the caption below:
1-5 Corynactis Viritis, 6. Bologera Eques,… Read the rest “Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.”
These are seashells – murexes from the deep waters off Vanuatu called Scabrotrophon inspiratum. Belgian researcher Roland Houart wrote about them (and as far as I can tell photographed… Read the rest “Science Art: Scabrotrophon Species, Roland Houart, 2003.”
SONG: “Sandpaper Skin”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: PLOS One 19 Oct 2022, “Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications … Read the rest “SONG: Sandpaper Skin”
PLOS One has revealed a strange secret of the sea, in which researchers have observed tuna and other pelagic (free-swimming) teleosts (bony fishes) intentionally rubbing against the … Read the rest “Sharks to tuna: fearsome predator, convenient backscratcher.”
University of Florida (go gator research!) is looking into a treatment that could help stop the loss of coral, which is nice because coral reefs help stop the loss of Florida due to beach erosion.… Read the rest “Probiotics are curing sick coral reefs.”
A friend of mine clued me into this project. It really works and I encourage you to try it.
Did you know cephalopods have been on Earth for longer than trees? That Hawaiian bobtail squid glow… Read the rest “Science Art: “Get Squid Facts” street art, Philadelphia, 2022.”
This is an illustration of a sea creature that, at the time, was (not exactly) new to science. It was new to British science when C. Spence Bate wrote about it in “On a new genus and several… Read the rest “Science Art: Bellia arenaria, from The Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 2, Vol. 7, #37, 1850.”
Scientific American introduces us to the bees of the sea, newly observed tiny crustaceans that pollinate seaweed like bees do flowers on land:
… Read the rest “Bees of the sea: crustacean pollinators”For the red seaweed Gracilaria gracilis,
The sea cucumber doesn’t look like much until you really look at it. They’re complicated little creatures. They have complicated little parts. In this case, they are labeled… Read the rest “Science Art: Holothuria tubulosa (Sjogurka stor ugglan, a sea cucumber) from Nordisk Familjebok, 1919.”
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