A beautiful jelly was just sighted by the Ocean Explorer as they cruise the deep sea near American Samoa live at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov. According to Dr. Allen Collins–a zoologist at NOAA and the Smithsonian–this little jelly is a rhopalonematid trachymedusa. I’ve been lucky enough to see a few… Read More ›
Pretty amazing turtle footage, pretty rough for the jellies….
Very cool video here! Eel larvae are a great example of an animal with a backbone that also happens to be gelatinous. And as someone who doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about fishfish, I learned a few fishy facts too! link… Read More ›
So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I see this picture–posted by a scuba diver from a small group of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean called… Read More ›
A very interesting article on how jellyfish might not be taking over the world, even if the idea did. When is a jellyfish plague not (necessarily) a jellyfish plague? When time-poor scientists selectively cite the literature to make it look… Read More ›
Several years ago I found myself freezing cold in the middle of Walden Pond. It was a crisp October evening, and I was floating face down in the middle of the lake, gazing through my goggles at something completely magical…. Read More ›
You guys, this summer has been giant! I successfully defended my dissertation, “Development and Evolution of Scyphomedusae” in May. Truly, it was an incredible day. And check out the amazing poster my lab made! After my defense I had a… Read More ›
