As if I needed another excuse to visit the World's largest shopping facility, Sea Life Minnesota, the Aquarium located within the Mall of America, will be carrying out a $2 million expansion March 2015, the largest expansion since its opening in 1996 (they can get,...
I wonder if my cat actually liked to swim if she could do the same? Mau loves a good game of "laser tag". This intriguing study, brought to us via National Geographic, demonstrates how tiny little creatures like krill could play a sizable role in how our oceans'...
If you recall, about six weeks ago I posted a perplexing article about "Mysterious Plankton From Outer Space". During a routine spacewalk, Russian cosmonauts happened across what was claimed to be traces of sea plankton and other micro-organisms, not only living but...
Ever since I was a wee little babe, it was my dream to someday be able to live in the ocean. Not in some bizarre underwater station or submarine, or with a strange globe surrounding my head, but legitimately be able to breathe and survive blissfully in the massive,...
Well this is pretty interesting - turns out the sleep hormone melatonin that's responsible for jet lag in humans has a similar effect on plankton. Supposedly, it could possibly be the cause of mass migration of the little guys in the ocean, according to scientists at...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc9W9XoOcP0 How cute! The Maryland Zoo of Baltimore just completed a state-of-the-art African Penguin exhibit, the nation's largest outdoor penguin exhibit. The dozens of resident black footed penguins get to lounge around a swanky 1.5...
Discovery News posted this a few days ago but I seemed to have missed it until late last night (ok, super early this morning). The Hydroelectric Tidal House, the brainchild of architectural designer Margot Krasojević, harvests tidal energy and converts it into...
File this under your "pretty damn cool" tab for the day and take a look at these massive four-foot giant jellies spotted on the Southern Coast of Britain spotted over the past few weeks. Believed to be barrel jellyfish, experts hypothesize the Rhizostoma pulmo were...
This title put me off a bit: "Man Sets World Record for Deepest Underwater Dive"... what other kinds of dives are there? Skydiving? But then that's a fall? Whatever, I suppose if it just said "dive" I'd say "into what?". Moving on. So this Egyptian daredevil recently...
http://vimeo.com/84872751 Since posting one "Reefs In Art" post earlier wasn't satisfying enough, I ventured out in search of more Plankton Art, because let's be honest, diatoms can be pretty adorable! Seriously, have you ever seen a cuter Christmas Card? Cleverly...