What do elephant seals and Darth Vader have in common? Other than both of them commanding your intimidation and awe, invoking both a little fear…
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Shoddy Self-Esteem Sunfish: Anthropomorphizing a Sad Sad Fish
Don’t ride an ocean sunfish. I’m sorry, but why would you ever thinking getting on top of a big fish is a good idea? It…
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5 Reasons Why Great White Sharks are the Blackberry of the Seas
1. They are sleek yet functional. The aesthetics are impeccable, and signal just how well designed these sharks/smartphones are. Blackberry is one of the most easily-recognizable…
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For those who have seen elephant seals up close and personal, there is no questioning the fact that elephant seals are not afraid to put…
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Sixty million times. That’s really big, but just how big? 60 million kilometers is almost half the distance from the Earth to the sun 60…
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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,…
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Last week a writer for Shanghaiist released an article that may come to be know as the most influential blog post in the history of the…
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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…
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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…
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