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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LOL Ocean Giants
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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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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The summer is coming to a close. I’m sorry. It’s time for us to prepare for the chilly winds of autumn and winter. For college…
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…
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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…
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…
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