Malacology Monthly: It Eats Whaaaat?
Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste...
Tag: Parasite
A New Parasitic Male Found
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed–Abraham Lincoln...
Rhizocephala: A Haiku
I want to introduce DSN readers to my new favorite blog by Elliott Kurtz, an undergraduate student studying marine...
This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only...
A Blanket of Mucus
You are fish. The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly. Your...
Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et...
Your Happiness Kills Crustaceans
Nearly 30-90% of the pharmaceuticals we digest are excreted in its active form. These active pharmaceuticals collect sewage systems...
Isopods Cause Reproductive Death in Shrimp
Isopods, you know them as those adorable little roly-poly bugs under rocks in the forest or the gigantic Bathynomus...
Family Gatherings and Free Swimming Sperm Packets
My wife is from a very large family. Inevitably at in-law gatherings, I find myself whispering into my wife’s...
Echinoderms, Cnidarians, & The Gastropods That Parasitize Them
The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a...