Insects Can Leave Voicemail - Using Plants

Insects Can Leave Voicemail - Using Plants

A few years ago, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) researchers discovered that soil-dwelling and above-ground insects are able to communicate with each other using the ragwort…
Wild Salmon, Invasive Species

Wild Salmon, Invasive Species

Sometimes natural is not good.   Actually, a lot of the time natural is bad but we live in in era where anti-science types have a 'natural' fetish, believing anything natural is good. But not…
How To Tell Two Squid Apart

How To Tell Two Squid Apart

Dear squid blog, I am sorry that so many other projects have been keeping me from you lately! My love for squid remains undimmed. Just to prove it, I will share with the world a helpful chart that I…
Hondurans Burn Shark Fins To Stick It To Poachers

Hondurans Burn Shark Fins To Stick It To Poachers

Honduras is now a permanent shark sanctuary so any shark fins found are illegal - the International Union for Conservation of Nature says that 30 percent of all shark populations around the world are…
Squid-dorable Photos from the Vancouver Aquarium

Squid-dorable Photos from the Vancouver Aquarium

Jonathan Wong, Vancouver Aquarium HuffPo has some fantastic photos and a video up from the Vancouver Aquarium. The species is Doryteuthis (once was Loligo) opalescens, sometimes called the inshore…
Modern Squid Ink Unchanged From Jurassic Times

Modern Squid Ink Unchanged From Jurassic Times

Usually "No Change in X" doesn't make a very splashy headline, but when the lack of change occurs over 160,000,000 years and X is squid ink, people get excited. And with good cause. This is the first…
Sustainable Yield in Fisheries

Sustainable Yield in Fisheries

It is very difficult to achieve this goal. Typically, fisheries undergo stocks permanently at different temporal and spatial scales of exploitation that exceeds the biological capacity and…
Hatchery Salmon Versus Wild Salmon

Hatchery Salmon Versus Wild Salmon

A group of studies says that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat. Salmon, which survived millions of years of evolution, are in…
Eminent Squid Scientist Retires

Eminent Squid Scientist Retires

My very first mentor in cephalopod research was Eric Hochberg at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. I think I was seventeen when he welcomed me into the museum's secret catacombs (at least…