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Category: Adaptations
I found this interesting picture illustrating how extensible the belly of the anglerfish is. They gulp more than their share in body weight! Quite a nice adaptation when you never know another meal will pass you by. Culled from a...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 6:35 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
Now EVERY dolphin is going to be tail-walking on the water. Remember the moonwalk phenomenon in the 80s?? Yeah, you thought that was bad? Well, just think how bad it will be when all the dolphin's start tail-walking? Great job...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 5:57 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
Robotic sea bream from researchers at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Go to the Pink Tentacle to get the full story!...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:22 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
Why are we encouraging this behavior!! Doesn't everyone know that in the future they will rise out of the oceans to destroy us????...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 5:35 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals & Link Love
In case you have been sleeping all day, flounders have been flopping all over the place! The maestro of science story-telling, Carl Zimmer, has produced in my opinion one of his finest posts ever at his new blog at Discover...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 8:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
From National Geographic's new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Photograph by Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures. This medusa is like totally coming at me like a spider monkey with those nunchuk...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 4:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a "silent invasion" happening around the world's oceans in the journal Biological Invasions. Those may look like tentacles, but in reality they...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
Here's a quiz for you kids. Which of the habitats above possesses the most microbes? A. Fresh Volcanic Basalt on the seafloor, B. Sargasso Sea Water, or C. Farm Soil A recent study by led by Santelli in Nature...
Posted by CR McClain at 3:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
A species of holothurian, Pannychia, swarms a whale fecal mound in the abyssal Pacific. When Miriam visited me last week at MBARI, we discussed over lunch my current "great" hypothesis. Every scientist has them...these are the hypotheses that are high...
Posted by CR McClain at 4:01 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
I don't study hydrothermal vents. I rather enjoy the deep muddy ooze, and its organisms, that comprise much of the earth's surface. Not that I don't like vents, I just like the soft bottoms better. I have been often...
Posted by CR McClain at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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