People accept the idea of echinoderm predation on shallow reef building corals. The voracious Crown of Thorns seastar Acanthaster planci is a familiar coral antagonist…
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100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
View More 100 Million Year Old Giant SpermCoral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
View More Coral and Brittle Stars, Together ForeverEasy Big Fella
Way before even your great-great-grandpappy was born and Ohio was ocean instead of cornfields, it was the “Age of the Fishes”. During this Devonian (400-360…
View More Easy Big FellaTGIF: Echinoderms Aren’t So Bad
This animation from Daniel Brown at Biochemical Soul makes me come close to actually liking echinoderms. Well..at least I still like them more than mammals. …
View More TGIF: Echinoderms Aren’t So Bad5 Questions With Me
The Duke Research site this month features my answers to five questions about ocean biodiversity, body size variation, blue whales, municipal water supplies, giant squids,…
View More 5 Questions With MeAre sea urchins bad parents?
Sea urchin offspring have one of the coolest names in the plankton. They’re called “pluteus” larvae. Yet, according to this narrator, urchins don’t know or…
View More Are sea urchins bad parents?A Sexy Friday in the Intert00bz
Cephalopod Tea Party reports that baby squidlings take first prize in the 2009 Art of Science Competition! Myrmecos has some great photography on 2 spotted…
View More A Sexy Friday in the Intert00bzTGIF: Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini
Below is all of Season 2 of Green Porno. All of Season 1 and behind the scenes videos can be seen at the Sundance Channel.…
View More TGIF: Green Porno with Isabella RosselliniTrilobites Ride the Crazy Train
A new paper published recently in the journal Geology reports on peculiar conga party lines of our paleo-friend, the Trilobite. Gutierrez-Marco and colleagues discovered a…
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