Nifty! Forwarded by a co-worker.

The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured ( Read more... )

Our scientific aide brought in a couple of nifty fish Friday, taken in a purse seine. One of them was a sarcastic fringehead. I won't post the pic taken of it as it was pretty beaten up, but I did post about them once before about four years ago; I especially like Dr. Love's quote about them.Here's little portrait I took of one at the Cabrillo ( Read more... )

From Divebums Photos of the Week - this is a fascinating little video of an octopus taken down in La Jolla. While it may not be "walking" bipedally quite as definitely at the octies in the videos that made the internet rounds a couple of years ago, it's pretty interesting to watch. Very shortly in, it comes to rest and forms white "eye-spots" ( Read more... )

Getting to be that season - if you live in southern to central CA and are interested in particpating in a bit of Citizen Science, why not volunteer to be a Grunion Greeter? Workshops are coming up (oops, some are this coming week!), so go to ( Read more... )

Not that they have calendars or anything...

http://campaign-archive.com/archive.phtml?cid=4Jv4Dp0dtA&rid=odrKc0liOu

(recieved from the TOPP research group)

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(The following bit of fluffy insanity was written several months ago after an Inuyasha movie marathon and waaay too much coffee.  Forgive me.)

Indulge me if I go off on some Inuyasha musings. Inuyasha, being an anime series about a modern-day girl who falls down a well to find herself in feudal Japan and the companion of a long-haired boy who, ( Read more... )

Wow, two really cool fish from a couple of weeks ago (and one extra from awhile ago).

( oarfish )

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/

I love weird creatures in my fantasy and science fiction, but it's also fun figuring out whether they would actually work. Granted, most of the B-movies mentioned are fun just because they're so ( Read more... )

Haven't had time to read the entire article (or set of articles) yet in New Scientist, but it looks fascinating ( Read more... )