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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: Megavertebrate
The future looks promising for Kemp's ridley sea turtles. A record 195 Kemp's ridley nests were found on the Texas coast this nesting season, which runs from April to mid-July. It's the fifth consecutive record-breaking year.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
I came across these pictures from Fogonazos. Be sure to go over there for a great article about Mola Mola, the giant ocean sunfish, with about 2 dozen more pictures! Now that's a whole lotta Mola! Read Fogonazos to see...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 3:55 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books/Media
G4TV's coverage of the manly hit game Harpooned, brought to us by phisrow who left a comment on the last whale post. You can visit the harpooned.org and download the game to see how *real* scientific research is done...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conservation & Environment
BBC reports: "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals that some large species, like humpbacks, have seen numbers increase. However, it warns that smaller species, including river dolphins, have declined as a result of human actions. The IUCN added...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 8:53 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
We've talked about deep-diving seals here before. Now it appears oceanography is being outsourced to Antarctica. Grad students beware, seals are the latest species to steal deep-sea jobs away from hard-working americans! The Sunday Times UK reports:"SCIENTISTS are uncovering the...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 5:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
There are a few theories about why sea turtles make occasional excursions into very deep (> 1000 m) water. These involve escape from predation, thermoregulation, and prey availability. In the first two, sharks are fewer, so turtles can evade predation and "cool off" at the same time. Like ladies tanning on a balcony.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 12:48 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
If you have been following the story of Andrea Marshall and the manta rays off Mozambique you may notice she responded to questions in the comments section yesterday to tell us she's working with elasmobranch expert Leonard Compagno to sort...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:42 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
Telegraph UK is running an amazing series of photos of great white attacking a seal. That's going to leave a mark....
Posted by CR McClain at 10:45 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
When Andrea Marshall began studying the manta rays of Mozambique for her dissertation five years ago, she never expected to discover a new species, let alone a globally cosmopolitan, highly migratory ocean wanderer. She was "awestruck by their beauty," studied...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:30 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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