Life Without Gonads and Toes
The Wonderful Reproductive Cycle of Cyliophora The Loriciferans were first described in 1983 and since then around 20 species were described with at least 80 species waiting in the wings for their...
View ArticleSand Shack For Your Flippy Floppy Needs
The Sand Shack is an environmentally friendly brand of apparel and accessories founded in Cape Cod. The company was started by Brian Lintonin 2006. After reading about Brian at the Sand Shack page I...
View ArticleLady Gaga enters the Invertebrate Wars
Every palinurid‘s secret ambition is to be sparkly and aboard Lady Gaga. But if Lady Gaga were REALLY hardcore, she would have tiny sparkly Cycliophorans on the sparkly lobster’s sparkly mouthparts.
View ArticleTide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the potential exchanges of species in cold methane seeps across the Atlantic...
View ArticleAre crawfish really lobster?
Lobster or crayfish? Photo © Biopix: JC Schou The New York media is all aflame over a shocking discovery at local institution Zabar’s. Zabar’s, an Upper West Side gourmet grocery store is justly famed...
View ArticleNothing says let’s get it on…
Alexandria Warneke is a masters student at San Diego State University. You may remember that Alex had a Scifund project asking for funds to support her research in chemical ecology. I so was impressed...
View ArticleThe official anthology of Rick Ross rapping about crustaceans
I generally bow to Dr. M and Alex when it comes to rap music knowledge, but I’m just going to add this little factlet to the DSN vaults. Rick Ross, raps about crustaceans. A LOT*. And after reading all...
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