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Scienitific illustration of jellyfish from the 1800s, the Valdivia Expedition

Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.

16 February 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a […]

Seals talk with applause. OK, clapping. They clap to each other.

4 February 2020 grant 0

Science Daily leads a round of applause for researchers who’ve found that seals clap to each other underwater: “The discovery of ‘clapping seals’ might not […]

How to mine the bottom of the sea.

23 December 2019 grant 0

The Atlantic goes deep, deeper than ever in search of the wealth beneath the ocean floor: Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the […]

Yes, KISS is actually having a concert for sharks.

14 November 2019 grant 0

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 […]

Scientific Illustration of the development of the gonophore - reproductive cells.

Science Art: Development of the Gonophore…., 1891

13 October 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen From Johns Hopkins circular “On the Structure and Development of the Gonophores of a Certain Siphonophore Belonging to the Order Auronectae (Haeckel).” […]

As Australopithecus to us, so this fossil to sharks.

7 October 2019 grant 0

Nature reveals the “missing link” for sharks, thanks to a cartilaginous fossil of a 383 million-year-old eel-like fish: Christian Klug at the University of Zurich […]

Scientific Illustration by DF Sotzmann of a tub gurnard or sapphirine gurnard, a kind of sea robin.

Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)

1 September 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks […]

New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium

22 August 2019 grant 0

CNN is among the news outlets covering a hopeful story (as the rain forests burn), that the Florida Aquarium in Tampa has found a way […]

The American pocket shark glows in the dark

23 July 2019 grant 0

CNN was among the news outlets celebrating the discovery of a small, glow-in-the-dark shark species: The 5 1/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of […]

Scientific illustration of three kinds of squid, from 1912

Science Art: Cephalopoda (Figs. 441-443), from The Depths of the Ocean, 1912

7 July 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen Three kinds of squid-kids (I think; at least one is identified as a juvenile), from the research expedition of the Norwegian steamer […]

Scientific illustration or, well, painting of Water and marine life as an elemental face

Science Art: Water, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566

23 June 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen I’m not sure if this really is a scientific illustration, but I think, given the time, it counts as natural history. This […]

Sharks are eating *songbirds*.

24 May 2019 grant 0

Science magazine demonstrates that sharks can and will eat literally anything, up to and including songbirds that live miles inland … but migrate over the […]

A “kelt” is a salmon that survives spawning. Again and again.

2 April 2019 grant 0

Hakai Magazine looks at the few mighty salmon who survive the rigors of the spawning run year after year. Where most fish die after (or […]

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Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972

16 December 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral. In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, […]

Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence

17 September 2018 grant 0

Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating […]

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