Last month we covered how scientists found a previously unknown protein in phytoplankton that grabs essential but scarce Vitamin B12 from the water.

Vincent chose his medium with care. Longer ago, fish hooks symbolized our intimate connection with nature with fish hooks found as far back as 42,000 years ago in East Timor.

“The world needs less rats and more jellyfish, so I thought it would be cool to do a one-for-one swap,” mused Kevin Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Harvard, to Live Science yesterday.

From NPR.org:

Florida’s Aquarius Reef Base is the only working undersea lab left today. But now that federal funds have dried up, it may be forced to surface. Oceanographer Sylvia Earle joins Science Friday from inside Aquarius, 60 feet underwater, to talk about sponges, corals and other life she’s observed on the reef.

I caught up with Sean on the Makerbot Operators Google Group and asked him about this amazing print called the OctoPod Underwater Salvage Vehicle or O.P.U.S.

Humboldt squid are noted for their extremely aggressive behavior during feeding frenzies but rarely do you see one attack something as an individual. In certain instances, however, they have attacked underwater cameras to the point that the cameras no longer operated properly.

The Marine Aquarium Society of Michigan and Marine Breeding Initiative are holding the 3rd Annual Marine Breeding Initiative Workshop 2012 at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The

I picked this tip up on Gary Parr and Christine Williams’ ReefThreads #90 podcast. Their

President Barack Obama has one. Comedian Stephen Colbert has one. Elvis Presley has one.

Nori clip rendering

This particular project was pretty easy all things considered. I wanted a simple nori clip that I could just suction cup onto the side of a tank.