Category Archives: Sea Creatures
Lose the Coconut Shells, Veined Octopus. You’re Holding Everyone Up!
Researchers from the Museum of Victoria have stumbled across a rare case of invertebrate tool manipulation in Indonesian waters. While studying the delightful mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), biologists Dr Julian Finn and Dr Mark Norman observed the peculiar and complex … Continue reading
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Wandering Ponies #1
In an effort to generate more content here while Sara and I are too busy working/raving/generating content elsewhere to write proper posts, we’ve decided to throw up (not literally) a bunch of links to stuff that has amused and/or intrigued … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Archosaurs, Science, Sea Creatures, Video
Hey Polychaetes, Let’s Play the Silence Game Till the Next Whale-Fall, Okay?
In her recently-published dissertation for the University of Gothenburg, Swedish doctoral researcher, Helena Wiklund, identifies nine new species from two families of polychaete worms (Ophryotrocha and Vigtorniella) found on whale remains in Scandinavian and Californian waters. Polychaetes, a common type … Continue reading
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You Guys, You’re Going To Give Hydrolagus melanophasma A Complex!
So you’ve probably already heard about it a billion times over, but yes, a team of researchers from the Pacific Shark Research Center and the California Academy of Sciences have identified a new ghost shark, publishing their findings in the … Continue reading
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Beware Those Yellow Crazy Ants, Christmas Island White-Eye…
An online report published in last week’s Biology Letters has revealed the damaging effect an invasion of ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) is having on some of Christmas Island’s native bird and plant species. In this study, led by ecologist, Dennis O’Dowd … Continue reading
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