Roger Norman Bamber (1949-2015) I asked Tammy Horton, a noted expert on crustaceans, to write this post about the life of her colleague...
I prefer my seafood without sperm, thank you With the first taste of palolo I understood the Samoans’ love for it. Certainly it suggested a salty caviar,...
These are a few of my favorite species: Pig Butt Worm This species bring a whole new meaning to butt face. It’s Latin name even means butt face. I jest…...
New nightmare fuel: the giant scaleworm Eulagisca Giant isopods and vampire squid are sooooo last year. I bet you’re even sleeping through the night now without...
More annelid than anaconda Once upon a time in 1993, when I was imbibing my sophomore year at college in Australia –...
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...
New Species Friday 10/30/09 – Ophryotrocha fabriae Say hello to my little fried… In fact, this guy is so small you might have missed if you...
It Must Be “Hump” Day in the Blogosphere Christopher Taylor at the Catologue of Organisms (one of the handful of blogs I rush to when I see...
TGIF: Polychaete Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Friday Deep Sea Picture: Ninja Hydromedusa! From National Geographic’s new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near...