Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” animals… Read the rest “The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.”
SONG: “Kavachi”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal a ‘Sharkcano'”, National Geographic Explorers’ Journal, 9 July … Read the rest “SONG: “Kavachi””
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 “sharkcano”… Read the rest “Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.”
Nature has the grisly details about the 1,300 dolphin deaths that can be traced to that one incident:
… Read the rest “That Deepwater Horizon spill… it’s still killing dolphins.”The spike in dolphin deaths began shortly before the spill in April 2010, and scientists
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:
… Read the rest “The moonfish is warm-blooded.”New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela:
… Read the rest “Lionfish have reached Brazil.”Lionfish
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid:
… Read the rest “Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.”At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by
SONG: “The Waves Around the Women.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18… Read the rest “SONG: The Waves Around the Women”
Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth:
… Read the rest “Stronger than spider silk”In a study set to come out this month
Science Daily introduces us to a brand new sea creature, bright red and fantastically delicate, dubbed the ruby seadragon:
… Read the rest “Meet the Ruby Seadragon”Using DNA and anatomical research tools, Scripps graduate student
SONG: “Not Even Dancing Works.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures“, New Scientist, 4 December 2014, … Read the rest “SONG: Not Even Dancing Works”
New Scientist pulls back the curtain on how electric eels “remote control” their prey, freezing them right next to their hungry mouths:
… Read the rest “Electric eels are puppet masters”The experiments that untangled these
Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited strangers:
… Read the rest “Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!””“There’s
It’s taken quite a while, but AP can finally report that blue whales off the coast of California have finally reached pre-whaling-industry levels:
… Read the rest “Blue whales have recovered, just about.”Researchers previously assumed
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of the sea urchins, sand dollars, sea stars and close… Read the rest “Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921”
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