Every Whale Has Its Bone
This one goes out to David from my lab who just got back from 2 months down under in Antarctica and deployed whale bones for…
This one goes out to David from my lab who just got back from 2 months down under in Antarctica and deployed whale bones for…
There is a disturbing trend in this BBC news article about the relationship between whaling and carbon. The report comes from a talk at The…
A couple of new deep-sea expedition blogs to add to your RSS feeds… An excellent and and often funny blog about a recent hadal expedition…
A nice write up this month in the Audobon Magazine by Amanda Mascarelli discussing whale-falls and Osedax worms. You can read it for free online.
The Southern Fried Scientist is TA’ing Invertebrate Zoology with Cindy Van Dover at the Marine Lab here. They are having their students create a 2-3…
#2 Genus Osedax (Phylum: Annelida, Class: Polychaeta, Order: Sabellida, Family: Siboglinidae) BONEZ1!! WE WANTZ UR BONEZ!! Perhaps the scariest deep sea creature, Osedax (latin for…
Jennifer Viegas over at Born Animal has a story about virgin animal births (called Parthenogensis) and a video of sharks mating! There was a report…
To take our knitting challenge? Or are you waiting for us to raise the stakes a little? To refresh your memory, I challenged knitting readers…
With a lot of extra spare change you could name a species
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…