*alternative titles include “Looking a gift seahorse (genome) in the mouth”, “My kingdom for a seahorse genome”, “Hold your seahorses“, and “The galloping evolution of…
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I’m the modern day equivalent of a massive Carboniferous dragonfly
I am annoyingly the first one to return to the surface after any scuba dive. My bottom time exploring the wonders of the aquatic realm…
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I have a confession. I am obsessed with ridiculously large and small things. While other children impatiently anticipated toys for Christmas, I enjoyed just as…
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What better animal to use as the spokesperson for the first soft bodied, autonomous robot?? To the engineers at Harvard 1. You win science today…
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Basically, the ocean is a glowing rave of awesome…but you already knew that. Happy Friday!
View More TGIF: Elasmo-Lite-BritesVideo! The sea slug that looks and swims like a fish
Out there in the open ocean is a nudibranch sea slug that looks like a fish, and for the last five months I’ve been obsessed…
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A comment on Reddit reminded me of a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because it stems…
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The worn and weary phrase “There’s more fish in the sea” isn’t just cold solace for heartbroken saps, but for shark biologists, this means more discoveries…
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When Darwin got down and dirty with his work on Barnacles (1846-1854), everyone still assumed there was no life at all in the deep sea.…
View More Deep-Sea Barnacle Genomics. Because, #DarwinDayDo baby dolphins hear their parents?
Yes, according to a recent study by Lancaster and colleagues. Many marine mammals are precocial in that the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment…
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