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Category: Japan Disaster
As a result of our last posting on Fukushima, we had a discussion initiated by commenter Daedelus2u about radioactive istopes of Cesium becoming concentrated in fish. I thought I'd take this opportunity to expand on that discussion a little. This relates to the possibility that...
Posted by Analiese Miller and Greg Laden at 2:14 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
What's the difference between being "the origin of the story of a 30 foot long fishy snaky thing with an undulating dorsal fin" and being a "30 foot long fishy snaky thing with an undulating dorsal fin" ...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:40 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fishing
Fishing is never what you think it is. Unless you actually catch a fish. Then, it's fishing.
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:49 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fish
This is apparently some kind of a record....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fish
It is no secret that shark videos are very, very popular. So, it is not surprising that Mark Powell at Blogfish has posted this rare and unusual footage of shark-human interaction....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The video of the shark is cool, but to me it's just a video of a shark. But listen to the commentary and you realize that this is a big deal. Five or six meters long, a head a meter wide, something really interesting about...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:07 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fish
The loss of sight in cave dwelling species is widely known. We presume that since sight in utter darkness has no fitness value, the mutation of a gene critical to the development of the sense of sight is not selected against. Over time, any population...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
