One afternoon, my coworker Lisa Guy and I are looking through her photo archive, when I spy something that looks like an purple butterball turkey…
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Beneath Antarctic Ice: Gelatinous Edition
Big tip ‘o the hat to @RebeccaRHelm on Twitter for sharing this beautiful video with great music on it. Make sure you stick with the…
View More Beneath Antarctic Ice: Gelatinous EditionThe many personalities of snails and anemones
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures-F. Scott Fitzgerald Quirky, sheepish, fun-loving, lethargic, energetic, aloof, courageous, sensitive You might invoke these words to describe…
View More The many personalities of snails and anemonesNew Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsDetermining the Fate of Carbon in a Mixotrophic Anemone
It has been known for a long time that some anemones form symbiotic relationships with Zooxanthellae. For a while it was assumed that the anemones…
View More Determining the Fate of Carbon in a Mixotrophic AnemoneOctopus Just Trying to Catch Some Zzz’s
So here I was, just minding my own business under this rock-type thing and some freakish looking thing from Poseidon-knows-where started kicking up dirt and…
View More Octopus Just Trying to Catch Some Zzz’sNE Pacific Expedition Day 11
A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can also follow the expedition here. [mappress] Really no update…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 11Got Gonad?
In an upcoming paper I have in press with colleagues, we are describing 4 new species of Anemone form hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific.…
View More Got Gonad?Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysis
Since the first observations of transoceanic dispersal in marine snails (Scheltema 1971), long distance transport for marine animals has been a kind of Holy Grail…
View More Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysisDeep Sea Creatures Are Super Freaks
A scientific examination of the Tasman Fracture Zone by a group of scientists (including some from CSIRO and the California Institute of Technology) uncovered 274…
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