Category: Ocean Critters
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Squid cloaking device
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6068853[/vimeo] An animation of the two mechanisms for squid iridescence and invisibility, based on work at the Morse lab at UC Santa Barbara. It’s my favorite of the delightful, quirky videos from Creature Cast, produced by Casey Dunn’s students at Brown.
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Life and death of a real sea monster
No, this is not Nessie, or any of the other dubious beasts reported by sailors who got a bit too deep into the grog. This is a real live Sea Monster — well, OK it’s a real dead one. And has been for 150 million years. But it may be the biggest marine predator that…
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Under The Sea, Sex Is Slimy Business
Dr. Ellen Prager was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross today talking about her awesome new book “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime – The Oceans Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter”. Ellen is a scientist, science communicator and author of a series of excellent fiction and non-fiction books about the ocean. Her new book is about the…
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Leatherback Sea Turtle Nests Increasing in Florida
Interesting finding by Larry Crowder, one of the world’s leading sea turtle population biologists. His work was key in the imposition of Turtle Exclusion Devices into shrimp nets. The authors postulate that the increase was due in part to climate change (=more food) and overfishing of sharks (=fewer predators). With climate change there will be lots…
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Coconut-carrying octopus
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DoWdHOtlrk&feature[/youtube]
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An antidote to gloom ‘n’ doom: Ocean chill
The Blue Planet set to music. Lean back . . . [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jema_dTA8wM[/youtube]
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Daily Sea Monster: The earthquake fish
The largest ecosystem on the planet is also the most mysterious–the bathypelagic or “midnight zone“, that thick layer of seemingly monotonous dark water between the film of sunlit surface ocean above, where the alchemy of photosynthesis spins sunlight into the tiny algal cells that feed the rest of the ocean, and the cold dark desert…
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Haeckel bivalves
The first of many Ernst Haeckel images
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Thieving sperm whale
From Science Friday: For years, longline fishermen in Alaska have complained that whales have been stealing their sablefish catch. A team of researchers, including Aaron Thode, Delphine Mathias and Jan Straley, mounted a video camera to a fishing line and caught a sperm whale stealing. Footage courtesy of Delphine Mathias, Aaron Thode, Jan Straley, Kendall…
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See through sea monsters!
This is too cool Hat tip to my BlueCarbonProject partner Kat Grigg