Introducing a New Species: My Namesake, a New Bone-Eating Worm
Osedax worms, or the ‘bone eating’ worms are little soft sacks resembling snotty little flowers. The “bone devourer” is not quite accurate as the worms…
Over at the World’s Fair… Anyway, this meme asks that you come up with your own scientific eponym. What’s that exactly? Well, first read this…
View More Gorton's LawBora over at A Blog Around the Clock publishes, edits, and composes (just about everything else) the Science Blogging Anthology, “Open Laboratory 2007”. Last year’s…
View More Open Laboratory 2007So once again, things are slow and I ask you to suggest some questions/topics. Just put them in the comments and Peter and I will…
View More Pose A QuestionLyrics below the fold. More of Flight of the Conchords at YouTube.
View More Too Good To Wait Till FridayThe much loved Texas Clipper will be sunk on this Thursday as part of the ships to reef program. Those from Texas A&M Galveston will…
View More If you are in the neighborhood and want to see a ship sinkWhat do hyperbolic crochet and coral reef organisms have in common? They both evolved to maximize surface area within a limited volume. So, naturally, a…
View More Coral reef display… in "hyperbolic" crochetAn upcoming episode (Nov. 14) of History Channel’s Monsterquest will supposedly show the largest squid ever caught on video. A squid researcher with film crew…
View More Monster Squid Captured on Video?This just on the wire from ETC… In a shot across the bows of geoengineering companies, the London Convention (the International Maritime Organization body that…
View More Ocean Fertilization…Not So Fast!Following on this post…here is another nameless beauty!
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Beautiful PolychaeteIt’s the muppet show! It’s time to play the music. Its time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the muppets On the Muppet…
View More TGIF: Muppet Show Vikings