Jurassic Hermit Crabs Are Even More Awesome Than You Can Envision
In case it ever comes up in a Jeopardy Daily Double question, the fossil record does not contain many...
Category: Adaptations
More Food, More Species
via GIPHY The Notorious B.I.G., Mase, and Puff Daddy understand. Increase one variable in a system and another variable...
Malacology Monthly: It Eats Whaaaat?
Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste...
I Pity the Species That Doesn’t Decorate
Mr. T made mohawks and fool pitying a life goal for many. Another life goal for many, thanks to...
Before Giant Plankton-Feeding Sharks, there were Giant Plankton-Feeding Sharks.
In the fossil history of sharks, a unique evolutionary experiment happened much earlier than anyone thought. The largest fishes...
Why are there no fish in the deepest deep sea?
Here’s a mystery: below 8,400 meters there are no fish. There are other creatures: sea cucumbers, anemones, tiny worms,...
Rare Giant Jellyfish Caught on Video
New spectacular video of a enigmatic jellyfish is going viral across the internet (see below). Although first collected in 1901 and...
Malacology Monthly: Cephalopod Compendium
Even if you don’t care much for marine invertebrates, you gotta love Cephalopods. Squid, octopus, nautilus, cuttlefish, they have...
So what do you call a group of cuttlefish?
Octopuses are generally loners. Squids often form schools. But cuttlefish (or seacuttles if you will)…they outright just don’t get...
These Are A Few of My Favorite Species: Mandarinfish
Coral reefs are synonymous with colorful fish, but in a world teeming with Technicolor extravagance, few fish can rival...