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I’ve turned off comments for now. Too much Spam. I don’t like Spam. I will turn them back on in the future, but for now I’ve had enough Spam. Damn Spam!

According to this story, it appears that hammerheads and possibly other species can reproduce without a father. Here’s an unrelated story on a new anemone found on the bones of a dead whale. This is why I love marine bio. It seems like every month there is at least one new exciting discovery!

I really don’t know what to say about this story from Kumamoto: link Some people should really not reproduce. So much unnecessary suffering and hardship is caused by people having babies that will not be adequately cared for. And whose idea was it to create an anonymous unwanted baby drop off? I can’t see how … Continue reading »

This post is dedicated to my little sister, who asked for me and Justin to post stuff for her to read in between tests: This is Yvel. She now has a new, stupid name, but her real name is and shall always be Yvel. When she was young, I used to carry her around in … Continue reading »

The Deep has some awesome photos of deep sea creatures, many of them taken by MBARI, and featured in Mysteries of the Deep (not to be confused with the National Geographic series of the same name), one of the shows at Monterey Bay Aquarium. Check out the impressive gallery on the book’s site (the link … Continue reading »

Killer and Monster wish you all a happy 2007!

It looks as if the same team of Japanese researchers who took the first still pictures of the giant squid have now succeeded in capturing one on video, though it is still unreleased. Read more about it here.

Not too long ago, I read about the Barramundi in some fishing magazine. It’s a fish native to Northern Australia that is not only puts up a good fight and is a good candidate for fish farming (unlike salmon, which is not only bland when farmed, but bad for the environment and wild salmon stocks) … Continue reading »

How many songs can you think of that use the same chord progression as Canon in D (the Coolio song doesn’t count because it straight out uses the piece, like Vanilla Ice took from David Bowie)?

We have video of a fish sitting on the molten sulphur and then moving off after a couple of minutes, apparently unharmed. link I hope you like reading about fish, because I’m going to start posting more and more about topics dealing with the ocean and things that live in the ocean.