I was just thinking the other day how I wish I had crab claws so I could crush academic opposition. Grab the children and run…
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Octopod Teeth
Many of you have probably seen this already. No doubt, you have said something like This thing has teeth where a beak should be —…
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Tardigrades are a paradox. There are less than 1,000 species globally yet they can survive anything-temperature extremes, starvation, irradiation, dehydration, vacuums, and the pressures of…
View More Tardigrade Space ProgramTemperature Not Pressure
Sunday evening the intelligent and lovely Sheril Kirshenbaum posited a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because…
View More Temperature Not PressureExperiments in ocean acidification
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to more dissolved CO2 in the world’s oceans. In turn this will increase the hydrogen ion…
View More Experiments in ocean acidificationWhy Don't All Whales Have Cancer?
Knowing my fascination with body size variation among organisms , Peter sent a link along for a new paper, “Why don’t all whales have cancer?…
View More Why Don't All Whales Have Cancer?Why Don’t All Whales Have Cancer?
Knowing my fascination with body size variation among organisms , Peter sent a link along for a new paper, “Why don’t all whales have cancer?…
View More Why Don’t All Whales Have Cancer?Lighted Whoopie In the Sea
Are animals of the deep giving lighted come-hither signals? Is there bioluminescent hanky panky going on?
View More Lighted Whoopie In the SeaCorals In Acid
Being a coral in acid may not be that bad.
View More Corals In AcidHumboldt Are Here And They’re Hungry
Growing up to two meters (six feet) long, Humboldt squid are formidable predators that hunt krill and a variety of fishes. Their normal habitat…
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