As part of Sizing Ocean Giants, I asked students last week to generate LOLCat style memes for their study organisms. The Rules: It must include…
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“Fish are friends. Not food.” What Finding Nemo Taught Me About Sharks
I can clearly remember the day that I saw Finding Nemo. I was eleven years old, and when Bruce the shark appeared on the screen,…
MoreGrowing Large on Jelly
Would you convert to a diet of cucumber? Could you do what the leatherbacks have done? None of us can really imagine surviving solely on…
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How the Whale Got His Throat and Other Musings by a Nubbly Human
Adapted from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Long, long ago, there was a Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) who ate everything in the ocean but a…
MoreAnd The Winners Are…
Today was the very exciting first meeting of the Sizing Ocean Giants crew in person. Spent the day discussing social media, database development, and ocean…
More515-Pound Atlantic Halibut
German fisherman catches world-record 515-pound Atlantic halibut – said he thought he hooked a submarine. via Reddit The Grind reports the fisherman had problems fitting…
MoreGiant Pink Starfish
Echinoblog, a one stop shopping place for everything Echinoderm, has a great post and pictures up about the Giant Pink Star, Pisaster brevispinus. One specimen reported at…
MoreHow many people go into a Kaiju and how much urine comes out?
Over at my not so famous blog, Deep-Sea News, I discuss allometry of body size and how we can use it to predict some features…
MoreMonster Goldfish Found in Lake Tahoe
A new kind of lake monster has been found, in the depths of Lake Tahoe: gigantic goldfish. Researchers trawling the lake for invasive fish species…
MoreWe’re Going to Need More Garlic Butter
Sea Life Senior Curator Chris Brown prepares to move Japanese Spider crab named Big Daddy as it settles in to its new home at Blackpool’s…
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