Australia's beloved massive cephalopod, the Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) have been gathering in Southern Australian waters since the late 1990's where there numbers spiked to over 180,000. Now it looks bleak for the big guys as their numbers dwindled down by a...
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science will be debuting a new exhibit on October 1, 2014. Whales: Giants of the Deep is an exhibit on tour from the museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a facility boasting one of the world's largest marine mammal collections. The...
Excited as ever to post another piece in my ongoing series of "Reefs In Art", two of my favorite things, today's post comes to us courtesy of Klaus Kemp, a microscopist from East Brent in the United Kingdom. Kemp devotes most of his time to carefully arranging the...
This is beyond terrifying. Just knowing what kind of blow the little three-inchers are able to deliver, I wouldn't want to get into a fist fight with this guy, EVER. Just look the mantis shrimp next to that dude's hand, he's huge! The fisherman, Steve Bargeron,...
Oh, how clever. Utilizing reflectors that emit an opalescent bluish-green sheen, the juvenile mantis shrimp is able to camouflage itself from predators. While adult mantis shrimp are pretty badass sucker-punchers and capable of holding their own, the vulnerable little...
Since I had somewhat depressing news earlier about the Spiny Seahorse, let's take a happier route this time around. These cute little seahorses, Hippocampus pontohi and Hippocampus severnsi, were captured on camera by two divers in the Philippines, where they've never...
Well this is kinda sad. Britain's Studland Bay use to be the home of over 40 Spiny Seahorses (Hippocampus histrix) in 2008. However, after an 80-hour survey this year in search of the spiky little ponies, they turned up with nothin' at all and only one has been...
As the search resumed on September 22, 2014, researchers have been desperately scraping across the open floor in hopes of finding the slightest trace of the mysteriously vanished Boeing 777, carrying 239 passengers and crew on March 8, 2014. The result? The most...
Scientists over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University have taken interest in the remarkable ability of the octopus to camouflage instantaneously whenever it so pleases. Now what happens when they apply this handy technology to soldiers and...
While this is falsely entitled to suggest this is the first time Octopus Cannibalism has been caught on film (National Geographic has this wild, violent video from 2010 of an octopus completely engulfing another), this is still pretty fascinating to me. Perhaps they...