SeaMonster blog
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Weird seahorse cousins found in stone for first time
My seahorse fossil-finding friend, Jure Žalohar, has made another amazing discovery. Back in 2009 Jure and his friend Tomas found the first fossils of extinct seahorses in his home country of Slovenia. His latest find is the world’s first fossilized pygmy pipehorse – a…
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Senegal cancels foreign fishing deals
Encouraging news emerged last week for West African fisheries as the new government of Senegal announced it has cancelled all deals with foreign fishing companies. All foreign-owned trawlers are to unload their final catch and leave for good. The problem of industrial…
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Happy Birthday Genie Clark
Today is Eugenie Clark’s 90th Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENIE! To celebrate I’m reposting my story about meeting my shark hero last year. 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 –…
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Seaweed is important to the Galapagos Islands
UNC PhD student Lindsey Carr has been working in the Galapagos islands over the last few years. She is doing some really cool work on algae and all the neat herbivores there, including iguanas, fish, urchins, and sea turtles. But she is short on funds for her planned field work this summer: please help her…
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Biodiversity, simply
Have you ever been flummoxed trying to understand — or explain — the concept and importance of biodiversity? Your prayers have been answered. This short video is an absolute gem of intuitive, attractive, concision (en español, with subtitles): [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33683059[/vimeo] HT to Julia Whitty at Mother Jones.
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Impacts of biodiversity loss rival those of climate change and pollution
Current estimates suggest we are now, or soon will be, in the grip of earth’s sixth mass extinction of species. This is of course a tragedy in many ways—but will it really affect us in any substantial way? With the thundering hooves of all the other apocalyptic horsemen bearing down on us—global warming heating, hypoxic…
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Stunning reminders of why the oceans are awesome
Here’s a few of the amazing pictures that won this year’s underwater photography contest run by the University of Miami Rosentiel School. Make sure you check them out in their full glory at the 2012 Winners website.
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Arctic sea ice thickness video!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bAwK8bVrNA&[/youtube]
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And everyone’s huggin’ each other and swimmin’ through this liquid space atmosphere
That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Verbatim, and there’s more where that came from, some of it surprisingly coherent. From the Ocean Rap Archive: Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers, lover of the Ocean, circa 1990: ht to Lars Gamfeldt
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Teeny tiny glowing sharks could be missing link
Take a tour of sharks around the oceans and you’ll find that around one in ten has the ability to glow, sparkle and twinkle its own eerie light. Some of the tiniest and most mysterious sharks – the pygmy and lantern sharks – are the subject of a new study looking into how glowing sharks…
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