These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you’d be a little on the kinky side…
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Sometimes Sea Monsters Are Real
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. “The Monster”, which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the…
View More Sometimes Sea Monsters Are RealThe Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access Journals
Currently a biodiversity crisis is underway, which many have termed the sixth extinction. E.O. Wilson in 1993 suggested 30,000 species extinctions occur per year, roughly…
View More The Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access JournalsLOLRhizocephalans: Plotting to Take Over the World
Rhizocephalan overlord,Peltogaster paguri (tubular thing sticking up on the right), infecting hermit crab. Photo courtesy of Jens Hoeg, used with permission. Rhizocephala are curious creatures.…
View More LOLRhizocephalans: Plotting to Take Over the WorldGiant Antarctic Sea Creatures
“Pet” Giant Pycnogonid attacking computer. This morning my email was flooded with friends, family, and colleagues notifying me of this story. What’s not to love…
View More Giant Antarctic Sea CreaturesAsk & You Shall Receive
When I sent the original email to Rick enquiring about obtaining one of these, I thought I would have to send him multiple emails. Apparently,…
View More Ask & You Shall ReceiveAsk & You Shall Receive
When I sent the original email to Rick enquiring about obtaining one of these, I thought I would have to send him multiple emails. Apparently,…
View More Ask & You Shall ReceiveAdd Nine More
It was announced at the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston that another nine sharks will be added to the…
View More Add Nine MoreClimate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Beginning with Victorian science and progressing through the onset of modern deep-sea biology, the dominant paradigm was that the deep sea was a stable ecosystem.…
View More Climate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea EcosystemsSharks Scare the @#$% out of Seals
How does fear drive a marine food web? That’s right I said fear, as in blood-curdling-scream-I-think-I-just-wet-my-pants fear. Sharks just swim around and intimidate the hell…
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