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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Sometimes pictures are too cool to wait for Friday. My friend Tom K. sent these along for my enjoyment and now yours. The first is a close up of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, where you can clearly the ring...
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Category: Biodiversity
I like things in the deep! I think about them when I sleep. It does not matter if they're red or blue, swim or crawl. Because I am banking my career or whether they're big or small! Seriously though if...
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Category: Critters
...it's a sea demon! Actually its a pteropod, a shell-less gastropod, and even crazier it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite....
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Category: Biodiversity
Maria over at Green Gabbro feels that I have printed a false and malicious post for the purpose of defaming volcanoes. I cannot be held liable if the accusations are true. Maria thinks that printing a list of "all the...
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Category: Biodiversity
Mr. Slybird has the latest and greatest Linneaus' Legacy carnival up at Biological Ramblings. It is an awesome blog carnival highlighting taxonomy, systematics, and biodiversity posts. They are looking for hosts for next month and beyond. Sign up and be...
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Category: Biodiversity
Following in the footsteps of Craig, I have a short piece published in the July/August issue of SEED Magazine for their Why I Do Science column. "On the Allure of the Ocean's Novelty" explores why I love doing the science...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 8:04 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biodiversity
That is the common theme in marine biology. Clara Moskowitz has an article up at LiveScience describing how scientists are struggling to keep up with marine life discoveries. Here is a short snippet:"Scientists figure there are at least 1 million...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 10:40 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biodiversity
Beware when you go on tropical holiday. Species richness of bacteria is higher in those waters. For many organisms on land (birds, mammals, snails, plants, insects, and more) diversity increases as one progresses toward the equator. For many marine groups,...
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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...
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Category: Biodiversity
Because of my previous trumpeting many of you may believe I scoff at anything non-mollusca. Untrue! I say! Indeed, I am friend of all invertebrate. My favorite books on my shelf is Barnes and Brusca & Brusca. Just to...
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