Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals

An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…

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If Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?

Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods?…

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The Tide Pool: Loss of Phytoplankton, War Gods and Corals, and Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity

An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new paper by Boyce, Lewis, and Worm…

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The Tide Pool: Divergent Flatfish, Eavesdropping Fiddler Crabs, Hurricanes Kill Urchins

An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- The western Pacific is broken land, plates…

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