marine biology
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SONG: Around This Mystery
SONG: “Around This Mystery”.
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SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Around This Mystery”
The social life of octopuses.
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”:
… Read the rest “The social life of octopuses.”In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15
Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes (literally) where they grow… Read the rest “Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.”
Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name… Read the rest “Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,”
Whispering baby whales.
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers:
… Read the rest “Whispering baby whales.”Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their calves in Exmouth
America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.
National Geographic reports on China’s boom in marine parks, including a new program to breed killer whales in captivity:
… Read the rest “America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.”The Chimelong Group, one of the country’s biggest amusement
Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.
PhysOrg reports on the discovery that sharks aren’t quite the “lone wolves of the sea” that they seem. In fact, sharks form social networks and share strategies to avoid… Read the rest “Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.”
American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean:
… Read the rest “American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).”Scientists estimate that over-fishing of sharks
Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. “The… Read the rest “Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.”
Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix
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The Guardian has an optimistic story out of central China, with news that the baiji – the Yangzi River dolphin, one of the oldest aquatic mammal species in the world – might be… Read the rest ““Goddess of the Yangzi” might not be extinct after all.”
The sun has risen, the fish are singing….
Growing up interacting with fish called “grunts,” this doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still kind of cool. New Scientist captures the chorus of fish… Read the rest “The sun has risen, the fish are singing….”
Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.
Big picture, small crab.
They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa.
This one was drawn in the 1880s (like one of those French girls) aboard… Read the rest “Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.”
Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.
Fish, in families. Fish, in schools.
These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when oceans were the “in” places… Read the rest “Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.”