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Nerve Toxins In The Deep

Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963...

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Putting Oilmageddon 2010 in Context

When I posted Iglu’s revised Oil Spill Timeline a few days, I didn’t give much thought to visual properties of the data presented in the screenshot I chose to represent. I was focused on the actual...

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Can Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!

Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence. Within ~100 million years, bivalves gained...

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California Coastal Climate Change Research

Was just sent these great informative short videos about research being done to understand how climate change affects coastal communities. Coastal organisms live in areas with much day to day...

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Malacology Monthly: Spines and How to Use Them

Evolution is repetitive, especially if it produces adaptations that work well. If it’s all about survival, spines do the trick throughout the mollusk world. Scorpion Without a Sting Scorpion Spider...

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Bring the hammer.

Prepare yourself for the hammer. No not that hammer. This one. The Malleidae, or the hammer oysters, is a suite of around 30 species, primarily in the genus Malleus, all with a hammer or T shape to the...

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Nerve Toxins In The Deep

Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms.  They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths.  Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963...

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Putting Oilmageddon 2010 in Context

When I posted Iglu’s revised Oil Spill Timeline a few days, I didn’t give much thought to visual properties of the data presented in the screenshot I chose to represent. I was focused on the actual...

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Can Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!

Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence.  Within ~100 million years, bivalves gained...

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California Coastal Climate Change Research

Was just sent these great informative short videos about research being done to understand how climate change affects coastal communities. Coastal organisms live in areas with much day to day...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Malacology Monthly: Spines and How to Use Them

Evolution is repetitive, especially if it produces adaptations that work well. If it’s all about survival, spines do the trick throughout the mollusk world. Scorpion Without a Sting Scorpion Spider...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bring the hammer.

Prepare yourself for the hammer. No not that hammer. This one. The Malleidae, or the hammer oysters, is a suite of around 30 species, primarily in the genus Malleus, all with a hammer or T shape to the...

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