The Best New Species of 2009
Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the...
Category: Fish
The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)
An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- How...
ResearchBlogCast #4: Decreasing Predator Size Increases Prey Numbers
Each week Dave Munger, Razib Khan and I discuss a recent paper from ResearchBlogging.org. This week was my turn...
The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
KAZ – A new occasional series modeled from Ed Yong’s Pocket Science where I will briefly report a few...
And the Rattail Was All Like ‘Dude! Just Trying to Get a Drink Here’
Serioulsy though, I cannot get enough of the Neptune Canada youtube channel. You won’t find this stuff on Animal...
Heading to Monterey!
I’m heading off for the rest of the week to work at Dr. M’s old stomping grounds, MBARI. I’ll...
The Deep Sea Is Chimaera Country
Beautiful, high-quality footage of Chimaeras captured by Neptune Canada. Story here.
The Dark Side of Male Pregnancy
Nicely narrated by Henry Gee! See the paper here: Paczolt KA, Jones AG (2010) Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual...
Tiny Tuna for Japan
What. The. Fuck?!?1?11?11!!? (pardon my language) A proposal by Monaco to extend the highest level of U.N. protection to...
Spinach, Popeye, and Fishy Pigeons
Originally, Popeye the Sailor gained strength from rubbing the head of a rare chicken. Not until 1932 and thereafter...