Sea Anemone Swallows A Sea Bird
You wouldn’t think birds would be on the menu of a marine invertebrate, especially one that’s stuck to the sandy bottom of a tide pool. But you’d be wrong, and Lisa Guy has […]
Category Archives: Just for Fun
Dancing Fishermen Myanmar
Dancing Fishermen Myanmar. Check out this video from National Geographic –a unique way to catch fish!
Sparkling Gems of the Sea
From bright gold, to sapphire and deep blue, these tiny copepods are the luminous gems of the sea that make the water sparkle as if it was filled with diamonds. […]
No Fairy Gardeners Here
They’re called fairy rings. These circles of eelgrass growing on the ocean floor near an island in Denmark look as if they could have been planted. But with no gardeners in […]
Ocean Heroes
THIS KID GETS IT! Watch what this six-year-old has to say about our responsibility to take care of the oceans. I love this kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVzgtzS-2Y
Turkeyfish: It’s What’s for Dinner
The best way to ensure over harvesting of an animal is to turn it into a popular food. That’s why I’d like to make turkeyfish the next new thing in […]
Bomb Squad Could Learn Lesson from Dolphins
When it comes to thinking up great ideas, nature provides a ton of inspiration. A falling apple clued Newton in to gravity. Gliding birds inspired the Wright brothers. And dolphins […]
Isopod Got Your Tongue?
October Creature of the Week: Parasitic Isopod. Above all other creepy, crawly, nasty creatures, this one gives us the worst nightmares. It’s a parasite that crawls inside a fish’s mouth, grabs […]
The Blob From the Deep
October Creature of the Week: This glob of a fish called a sculpin might appear scary to you, but it’s got good reason to be more afraid of us. It usually hangs out along […]
Zombie Sharkweek Mashup
October Creature of the Week: Goblin Shark. This guy needs no makeup artist to fit right in on the set of a horror movie. It looks prehistoric, and in a way, it […]
Snorkeler finds sea serpent
Animals turn up all kinds of places where you don’t expect them. Yesterday, a snorkeler swimming in shallow water ran into an 18-foot oarfish. Believed to be the inspiration behind the […]
True Ghost Story
Ghost ship, abandoned near Bermuda, is drawn by currents and wind to the Sargasso sea where she resists rescue and drifts on silently, perhaps forever . . . In August, […]
Stupid Animal Tricks
When this youtube video showed up, it seemed kind of unbelievable that someone who works underwater would be dumb enough to stick their hand in a fish’s mouth, but this […]
Ship Sunk in 1860 Identified
More than 153 years ago, a survey ship named the Walker went down in heavy seas just 10 miles off of New Jersey. Twenty sailors were lost, and the ship […]
Eat the Invaders!
If you think about it, the first person to eat a crab or a lobster must have been pretty brave. I mean, look at those things–yuck. But if you don’t think […]
How to Make a Bunny Glow: Use a Jellyfish
You’re not likely to be find one at a pet store any time soon, but the world’s first glowing bunnies were born in early August in a Turkish laboratory. It’s […]
Hungry Dogfish Gets Surprise
A crew from the University of Delaware was just trying to lure in one of their tagged sharks to see what she’s been up to, but a hungry dogfish got […]
