Science Art: Acanthophracta (detail) by Ernst Haeckel.
There’s a star in the East….
marine biology
Shark-tracking drones over Australian beaches.
Australia’s ABC News has us watching the skies to see shark-tracking flying robots (and drum lines to catch-and-release sharks): Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair has […]
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.”
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct […]
Global warming might make the fish jump.
Nature World News reports on a little mangrove-estuary dwelling fish that adapts to warmer waters by jumping into the air to cool down: In humid […]
Cuba & U.S. team up to save sharks.
Nature points out one pleasant side effect of the growing diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba – we’re doing better than ever at protecting […]
Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.
Click to embiggen This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a […]
Science Art: Doree, Zeus, Faber by Edward Donovan
Three names for one little fish. And those are just the beginning. I found this one on the Scientific Illustration tumblog, which quoted Wikipedia on […]
The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.
Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” […]
SONG: “Kavachi”
SONG: “Kavachi”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal a ‘Sharkcano’”, National Geographic Explorers’ Journal, 9 July 2015, as used in the post as used […]
Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.
National Geographic reveals an ecosystem my 10-year-old son might have dreamed up. It’s all lava, acid and sharks. Inside the cauldron of Kavachi is a […]
That Deepwater Horizon spill… it’s still killing dolphins.
Nature has the grisly details about the 1,300 dolphin deaths that can be traced to that one incident: The spike in dolphin deaths began shortly […]
The moonfish is warm-blooded.
Science Daily throws our sense of things slightly out of whack with news that there’s a fish out there that’s entirely warm-blooded: New research by […]
Lionfish have reached Brazil.
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela: Lionfish have […]
Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid: At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t […]
SONG: The Waves Around the Women
SONG: “The Waves Around the Women.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18 February 2015,as used in […]