quick blog post on discover magazine about the barreleye: Top 100 Stories of 2009 #41: The Freaky Fish With the See-through Head
longer post on livescience.com: Strange Fish Has See-Through Head
awesome video about it:
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who said dolphins were gay?
Feb 19
now theres a pink one?!?:
this hydrozoan has found a way to cycle back and forth between polyp and medusa stages, seemingly staying immortal
The only immortal animal on Earth
basically, when the whales numbers were low back in the 60s, whales had to switch to a higher frequency in order to attract mates…but now that the numbers are rebounding and there are more blue whales, they have switched back to a lower frequency
Blue Whales Croon A New Tune
In other words, the guys had to shout to be heard. But now that blue whales are more numerous, Hildebrand thinks the males have gone back to singing bass because it makes them sound bigger and more attractive to females. He says males of many species use lower tones to attract mates.
Sea slugs around Hauraki Gulf beaches had been found to carry tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent poison found in puffer fish. :
New sea slug warning at Auckland beaches
unfortunately i can’t embed this album…its 11 awesome shots from a surfermag.com slideshow from clark little:
cool way dolphins feed
Jan 13
click for full size
“A gray whale decided to breach between two fishing boats out in Banderas Bay, off of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s coast,” writes photographer Lea Wheeler. “We were told we might see some gray whales but did not expect to see one breach just a few yards from our boat. The winter and spring are good times to see the whales in this area.”