Now on ScienceBlogs: The Galaxy's Biggest Valentine
Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage
Kunekune Pigs
In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: WildAid
I think I've found it, WildAid. Do you know about them? If you live in Asia, then you have. If you live in the states, then maybe not. WildAid is, in my mind, the most badass endangered species preservation group in the world today.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 5:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: shark
Great video of spinner shark...
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 6:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: shark
From ABC4.com: A shark managed to jump out of its aquarium and onto a water slide at a hotel swimming pool used by guests. No one was in the pool at the time. The female reef shark leapt over the...
Posted by ableiman at 2:18 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: shark
A live goblin shark is filmed biting at some dudes arm
Posted by ableiman at 11:02 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnival of the Blue
The latest installment of Carnival of the Blue is now available in all of its glory on Zooillogix.
Posted by ableiman at 7:57 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: shark
A student at Aberdeen University in the U.K. is engaged in a groundbreaking study to see if we might be able to monitor the behavior of sharks in order to predict the weather.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: deep sea creatures
Those scoundrels at Deep Sea News narrowly beat us to this story. But the video is spectacular! Click here to watch it, and read their much-better-informed-than-ours-would-have-been description....
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 2:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: amphibian
Reported last month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a fascinating fossil was discovered in the Saar-Nahe Basin of Southwestern Germany (sounds more like somewhere in Middle-earth than Bavaria to us, but go figure). The fossil(s?) comprises...
Posted by ableiman at 9:40 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: shark
In two tantalizing shark discoveries, scientists in Germany have learned that playing certain songs to sharks in aquariums increases their libidos. Meanwhile, a different group of scientists may have discovered the secret rendezvous spot where great white sharks go to...
Posted by ableiman at 7:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: nintendo
Ever wonder where sea creatures have been or where they're headed? Thanks to marvelous modern technology and an ambitious team of prestigious scientific organizations, now you can watch in almost real-time! Since 2002, Tagging of Pacific Pelagic (TOPPS) research project...
Posted by ableiman at 2:53 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Orac 02.13.2012
ERV 11.26.2011
Tim Lambert 09.12.2011
Jason Rosenhouse 02.12.2012
Tim Lambert 02.01.2012
