Science News plunges into the dark, icy depths to discover how it is that phytoplankton, which convert sunlight to energy, survive and even thrive under the ice in the long, lightless Arctic… Read the rest “Light-loving algae survive, trapped under dark Arctic ice.”
Science News reports on a new record – three hours and 42 minutes underwater without coming up for air – set by a Cuvier’s beaked whale:
… Read the rest “Can you hold your breath for more than 3 1/2 hours? This guy can.”Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius
SONG: “All I See”
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SOURCE: Based on Scientific American, 28 July 2020, “The Brittle Star That Sees with Its Body”, as used in the post ”
A brittle… Read the rest “SONG: All I See”
Scientific American looks at how these starfish relatives don’t need eyes to see:
… Read the rest “A brittle star’s whole body is an eye.”And yet now there appears to be something far stranger about the biology of at least one species:
A water bear from Bermuda, as published in 1970 (a good time to be in Bermuda). Florarctus antillensis was apparently first discovered in the coral sands of Curacao, also… Read the rest “Science Art: Florarctus antillensis Van Der Land 1968, from “Tardigrades marins des Bermudes,” 1970”
Science News reviews the show-stopping submarine research that has gone behind the scenes with four species of sequined sea worms that have collectively been named “Elvis worms”… Read the rest “These sea worms look sequined – so we named them after Elvis”
Prince Albert I of Monaco was really into marine life, and used the royal yacht as a scientific research vessel.
Here, from the description on The Artful Gene’s tumblog… Read the rest “Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.”
Science News has what’s practically a Godzilla story: the discovery that residue from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests can be found inside the bodies of the world’s largest… Read the rest “There are nuclear-bomb layers in whale sharks’ bones.”
These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a jellyfish scholar… Read the rest “Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.”
Science Daily leads a round of applause for researchers who’ve found that seals clap to each other underwater:
… Read the rest “Seals talk with applause. OK, clapping. They clap to each other.”“The discovery of ‘clapping seals’ might not
The Atlantic goes deep, deeper than ever in search of the wealth beneath the ocean floor:
… Read the rest “How to mine the bottom of the sea.”Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the world have launched underwater mining programs.
From SportDiver‘s “Ask a Marine Biologist” column comes a question about a band that might have lost some human relevance, but is still aiming for the potentially lucrative… Read the rest “Yes, KISS is actually having a concert for sharks.”
Nature reveals the “missing link” for sharks, thanks to a cartilaginous fossil of a 383 million-year-old eel-like fish:
… Read the rest “As Australopithecus to us, so this fossil to sharks.”Christian Klug at the University of Zurich in Switzerland
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It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks along the bottom using… Read the rest “Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)”
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