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Two Sides to Every Worm: the Polychaete Nereis

August 29, 2009

In honor of our foray into the world of polychaete worms this week, I thought I’d share some closeups of a polychaete that has been the subject of many an invertebrate lab dissection: Nereis.
In this first video you can see our subject looking kind of cute and shy (awwww!). Pay attention to the dorsal (top) [...]

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The Swimming Green Bomb

August 22, 2009

UPDATE: Now with fabulous Swima photos courtesy lead scientist Karen Osborn!
. . . Is not the name of a new DARPA grant project. All over teh intert00bz this week was the story of a newly discovered group of annelid polychaete worms following the publication of a paper describing them in Science. Remember annelids? Segmented [...]

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The Creature(s) from the North Carolina Sewer

July 6, 2009

Every so often, an organism comes along that has even biologists fighting over what it “is”. Now you’d expect that after several thousand years of scientific inquiry, we’d have a pretty good handle on the terrestrial macrobiota of the world. You’d be wrong.
The background here is that a North Carolina construction company was hired by [...]

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To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before (On Planet Earth)

June 23, 2009

Today I give a Pseudopod Salute to ocean explorer Bob Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, who gave one of the best plain English explanations of tube worms and the importance of ocean research to Stephen Colbert back in February I have ever heard, and seems like a genuinely nice guy to boot:

The Colbert Report
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