Category: Ocean Critters
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Sushi: The Global Catch – new movie trailer
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23835141[/vimeo] How did sushi become a global cuisine? That’s the question filmmaker Mark Hall is tackling in this new feature-length documentary Sushi: The Global Catch, which premiers next week at the Seattle International Film Festival. From the looks of the trailer, this is going to be an awesome film. Asides from the sadly familiar scenes of…
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Genie Clark, The Shark Lady
They say never meet your heros, but after meeting one of mine I can thoroughly recommend it. During my recent visit to Mote Marine Labs in Florida I had the chance to meet Eugenie Clark – aka The Shark Lady – and what a wonderful lady she is. I’d arranged to have lunch with Genie the…
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More of the Chagos underwater world
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/17274137[/vimeo] Here’s another movie clip from filmmaker Jon Slayer that catches a glimpse of the Chagos Islands’ beautiful coral reefs. There’s also some great top-side footage of hermit crabs, sea birds, and a moray eel in a shallow tidal pool catching, wrestling with, and swallowing a crab.
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Meet the elusive eels
Dan Laffoley from IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas tells a glorious story of the European eel and some of the crazy things it gets up to, in another installment of Naked Oceans‘ Critter of the Month feature.
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What lives above, on, and in the oceans?
What lives above, on, and in the oceans? Pelicans of course… and what’s not to like about a pelican? Here’s our very own Seamonster John Bruno taking his turn picking the Critter of the Month on the Naked Oceans podcast.
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Beautiful jellyfish that lost their sting – or have they?
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23079092[/vimeo] Hello beautiful jellyfish. Check out this gorgeous movie shot at that famous lake in Palau where the stingers have lost their sting – or have they? Have a read of this National Wildlife magazine article and interview with jellyfish scientist, Laura Bell, who busts a popular misconception and reveals that they do have stings,…
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When Scientists were Poets. And artists.
Ah, those were the days. Back when scientists were not just technicians tickling keyboards and gingerly thumbing pipettes filled with tiny volumes of nucleic acids — but the Poets of Nature. Like the ancient druids, our forebears in the profession were often consummate Renaissance Men (indeed, they were mostly men in those benighted times, though…
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Quest for the curly-tailed horses
A little while ago, I made a rather wonderful discovery – I uncovered a forgotten pioneer of underwater filmmaking (and I found some seahorses). It was the title of Noel Monkman’s autobiography that caught my eye: Quest of the curly-tailed horses. And to…
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Why tiger sharks are cool
Sharks are cool creatures, right? We’re all agreed on that? Good. But tiger sharks are especially cool. Boris Worm from Dalhousie University in Canada picked them as his “Critter of the Month” on the Naked Oceans podcast a while back. Each month – just for…
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Holy Mackerel!
[. . . I’m tempted to add “Batman!”, but that would really show my age.] Where on earth do such expressions come from? I can’t answer that, but at least we can now sleuth out the evolution of the word mackerel itself, thanks to some crack detective work by Jim Gleick in his new book…