Sea Monster

Author: John Bruno

  • Kite surfing Puerto Rico

    I kite surfed Shacks last winter: what a place! [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/35855576[/vimeo]  

  • Mating barnacles xxx

    [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7461478[/vimeo] From Dr Casey Dunn at Creature Cast: Barnacles are stuck to rocks, which could make it tricky to get close enough to a partner to mate. They have solved this problem by evolving the longest penis relative to their body size of any animal. In this video the penises of several barnacles are probing the…

  • Bye Bye Bye wet suit version

    Another hit from the three seas program phenom: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0lK6GRO06E&list=UUw2OjYuEJKPDXkrAhaAGrJw&index=6&feature=plcp[/youtube]  

  • Ride the open access wave

    This is a slightly modified version of an email I sent to several ESA officers and editors as part of a conversation we are having about ESAs recent position letter in support of the Research Works Act (read primers on the issue from an anti-RWA perspective here, here and here). It was written from the perspective of a…

  • Cetacean size chart

    Just because…

  • Marine science ink

    One of my favorite things about the wonderful Science Online 2012 conference (AKA Burning Man for science journalists) was the field trip to Dog Star Tattoo in Durham.  We were accompanied by science journalist Carl Zimmer, who gave a superb and funny talk on the tattoos of scientists, based on his best-selling lovely book Science Ink. Ten…

  • SeaHarmony

    This film, a parody of eHarmony by Monika LaPlante, was my favorite at the Cyberscreen film festival I atteneded at last weeks Science Online conference in Raleigh. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyqOh7wsWA&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Other dating sites are just so species specific!

  • Filleting a lionfish

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx3tf71TdfE[/youtube]

  • You’ve never seen waves like this

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDEtGw7d3Q&[/youtube] This is Teahupoo (pronounced cho-po), Tahiti.  One of the heavyest and most dangerous surf breaks in the world on the biggest day it has ever been surfed. It was August 27th 2011 on a break day from the Billabong Pro surf contest, when contest organizers deemed the waves too big. That didn’t deter many of…

  • What Galapagos fisherman think about fishing

    From Shark Amigos [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/27136459[/vimeo]