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Category: Bringin' It
Russ comments in our previous post Au contrair. The record shows that Planktos was long advocating and involved in ecorestoration not merely recently. The Way Back machine easily proves this. The strawman of Planktos that was created and the ad...
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Posted by CR McClain at 2:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bringin' It
I like Miriam, she is a lady that gets it. Go there now and read her excellent post on the story behind the 6:1 ratio of plastic to plankton that is often touted in the media and why it is...
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Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:11 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted by CR McClain at 1:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bringin' It
I see that some are still trying to claim echinoderms are cooler. I see the evil order now even has their own blog. Thankfully we still have a tiny little magazine you might have heard of-National Geographic. Photographer David...
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Posted by CR McClain at 4:45 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bringin' It
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...
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Posted by CR McClain at 8:26 AM • 1 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...
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Posted by CR McClain at 4:01 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bringin' It
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...
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Posted by CR McClain at 7:39 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bringin' It
...there are barely 7,000 echinoderms....
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Posted by CR McClain at 7:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
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...
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Posted by CR McClain at 6:06 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
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...
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Posted by CR McClain at 5:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks