Behavior The view from a sperm whale’s nose What happens if you place a microphone on the tip of a sperm whale’s nose? Putting anything on the nose…
Economy Pros and cons of conservation: how rebounding sea otter populations impact local economies Growing sea otter populations are seen as a conservation victory. These cute, charismatic marine mammals are rebounding from near extinction,…
Conservation VaquitaCPR: Trying to save the world’s most endangered marine mammal What do you do when the species you’ve been working to save from extinction is down to fewer than 30…
Biology Ecology Evolution Facing the music: calls from one of the worlds most endangered dolphins The Study: Melo-Santos, G., Figueiredo Rodrigues, A.L., Tardin, R.H., de Sá Maciel, I., Marmontel, M., Da Silva, M.L., May-Collado, L.J.…
Ecology Arctic Unicorns: Understanding the past, present, and future of narwhals and their mysterious tusks Why do narwhals have tusks that make them look like unicorns? As climate change continues, what is the fate of…
Biology Follow the breadcrumbs: Sponges show how some animals clean up viruses These days, hunkered down in our homes (if we are lucky) and washing our hands till they’re raw, it can…
Aquaculture Biodiversity Conservation Ecology Fisheries Increasing Warming causes Ecosystem Change along the Northeastern Shelf Are the tropics coming to the Northeast coast of the US? Freidland and his team seem to think so. A…
Conservation Ensuring that coral reefs sound like home What does a coral reef sound like? The answer is more important than you might think. By playing the sounds…
Behavior Mazes aren’t just for mice: European shore crabs exhibit spatial learning Mazes aren’t just for mice, although a scientific literature search for maze learning might lead you to think so. In…
Biological oceanography Climate Change Ecology Gentoo Penguins as Indicators of Climate Change in the Southern Ocean Carpenter-Kling, T., et al. “Gentoo penguins as sentinels of climate change at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Archipelago, Southern Ocean.” Ecological…
Climate Change What’s Killing Seabirds in the Bering Sea? Jones T, Divine LM, Renner H, Knowles S, Lefebvre KA, Burgess HK, et al. (2019) Unusual mortality of Tufted puffins…
deep sea Into the deep: Deep sea mining is upon us, whether you would risk it or not While we have a lot to discover about the deep sea, we do know that in the depths of the…
Sharkbites Saturday Tracking the Bay’s Rays: Cownose ray migration along the Atlantic coast If you’ve ever tickled the back of a stingray in an aquarium’s touch tank, you’ve likely introduced yourself to a…
Hazards Threats to Cetaceans: There’s More than Meets the Eye Researchers spent seven years specifically studying deceased, stranded cetaceans along the coastline of the Canary Islands in Spain to figure…
Sea Turtles Turtle hatchlings attracted to artificial light like moths to a flame On this Turtle Tuesday, find out how artificial lighting along coastlines due to industrial and commercial development is affecting sea…
Coral Lost in the sound: coral planulae habitat selection affected by boat noise It can be hard to cut through the noises that surround us and focus on the task in front of…
Book Review Sharkbites Saturday Stuck in the middle with you: The trophic ecology of Caribbean reef sharks and large teleost coral reef predators We often think of sharks as the top of the ocean food web, chowing down on seals and big fish…
Sharkbites Saturday Citizen Science and Undersea Stars: The Value of Photographs to Global Megafauna Biology Check out this article about how tourist pictures of whale sharks are helping scientists learn about whale shark populations around…
Sharkbites Saturday Danger in the deep: uncovering the vertical movement patterns of vulnerable deep-sea sharks Deep-sea sharks are one of the most poorly studied groups of animals on the planet, yet, their populations are highly…
Parasitism Coming Home to Roost: A case of parasites relying on ancestral DNA to take advantage of a new penguin host species? Parasites are nasty and resilient organisms, often highly specialized to fit their hosts. But sometimes, nature allows a bit of…