The findings were published in the January and February 2012 issues of Zoological Studies by an international collaboration of researchers from Australia, Brazil, Japan, Kenya, and Taiwan.

The company’s name OluKai is derived from the Polynesian words Olu (meaning comfort) and Kai (meaning ocean) and in sticking with that tradition work to incorporate those two subjects into all of the shoes they produce. The

#10: ‘Tanked’ season 2 starts April 14, 2012

Wayde King and Brett Raymer are back. Animal Planet’s hit TV show about custom aquarium builders debuts its second season on April 14 @ 9PM.

Last month we reported on a scientific survey that showed evidence that corals that had been previously stressed by past bleaching events were more likely to survive future bleaching events.

Employing a novel excavation technique to reconstruct the timeline of historical change in coral reefs located on the Caribbean side of Panama, a team of scientists led by Scripps alumna Katie Cramer and current Scripps Professor of Oceanography and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Emeritus Staff Scientist Jeremy Jackson has determined that damage to coral reefs from land clearing and overfishing pre-dates damage caused by anthropogenic climate change by at least decades.

The six-minute video is part of the larger Plankton Chronicles project in which scientists and film makers share the wonders of the microscopic world with the public. The

What is plastination? Essentially it’s an anatomy process that preserves body parts by replacing water and fat with a special blend of polymers.

This question was probed in detail in the paper “Why are there so few fish in the sea?

Back in December, I covered how an archaeologist had uncovered an ancient fossilized squid and used its ink to draw a likeness of it after the archaeological dig.

This finding to date has only been found in humans and in Shark Bay bottlenose dolphins and was reported recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal B Society.