First shark species confirmed to eat everything – even veggies.
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species: Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in […]
marine biology
How rats can kill a coral reef.
Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on […]
The manta ray nursery.
Science Daily takes us to the Gulf of Mexico, where scientists have finished the first-ever study of a nursery for baby manta rays: Located in […]
A sea of sargasso swamps the Eastern Caribbean
Barbados is smothering under a blanket of seaweed. That’s the word from Hakai Magazine, which is studying a sudden, lethal growth in sargassum that seems […]
Science Art: Ptychogena Pinnulata, 1882.
Click to embiggen Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch. From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the […]
Killer whales speak human. A little.
Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them: New research reveals that orcas are able to […]
Science Art: Callorynchus antarctica, 1858.
An image that introduces Fishes and fishing : artificial breeding of fish, anatomy of their senses, their loves, passions, and intellects. With illustrative facts by […]
Science Art: Diagrammatic Figures of Cirroteuthis magna, drawn to a scale of about one-twentieth, 1886
Click to embiggen Octopus geometry, from Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, by William Hoyle.
SONG: Around This Mystery
SONG: “Around This Mystery”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the post “The […]
The social life of octopuses.
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”: 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.
Click to embiggen Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes […]
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 and […]
Whispering baby whales.
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers: Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their […]
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: The Chimelong Group, one of the […]
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 […]