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scubacraig.jpg Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.



peter_chinchorro.jpg Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.



kevvygumby%20copy.jpg Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.

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Circus of the Spineless

If you can tolerate the obvious Echino-bias, personally it makes me want to puke, the latest Circus of the Spineless is up over at from Archaea to Zeaxanthol. Word on the street is that all Mollusk contributions were deleted. In...

New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale Poo

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...

On Clearing Up Your Invertebrate Allegiance

Well it was only a matter of time before Miriam added the tunicates. Let me say that it has become crystal clear to me today what is occurring. This whole battle pits the protostomes vs. deuterstomes. The protostomes must rise...

There Are Easily Over 100,000 Extant Mollusk Species...

...there are barely 7,000 echinoderms....

Invertebrate Battle Royal Roundup

The battle royal is on with several bloggers choosing colors. The whole thing got started when Sheril at the Intersucktion state "No contest! Cukes would eat squid for breakfast" implying that somehow echinoderms were better than Mollusks. The whole...

You Should Fear and Respect the Radula

Jim has decided that he will join the darkside for the Invertebrate Battle Royale. That's fine! We wouldn't want someone with such poor cognitive processes on our team. Jim's attack centers on the idea that the Aristotle's Lantern is...

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 group that I have totally geeked out on in the past. In my previous work I have focused on the Ptenoglossa...

Echinoderms & Those That Love Them Need to Hang It Up

Snail over at A Snail's Eye View, one of the best blogs on the triple -W, casts a firm vote for the Mollusks. Snail reminds also reminds us that Google delineates a clear winner. Arthropods also suck. And just in...

Another Blow to Sea Cucumbers and a New Challenger to the Ring

Ed Yong over at Not Exactly Rocket Science ha an awesome post highlighting recent research on the unique vision of mantis shrimps. At the end of his post he (rightfully) dismisses the sea cucumber: "Personally, I think mantis shrimps kick...

On How Molluscs are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 2

Don't get me wrong this is pretty freakin' sweet, but echinoderms are not the only large Antarctic sea creatures. But this is way cooler... That is Syrinx aruanus, the Australian Trumpet, described by Linneaus in 1758. They are found...

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