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Starfish Guide for the Philippines: How Many Species Can We Get from Flickr?
Photo by Matt Kiefer via Wikipedia:Â Greetings! Yes. I have been posting less frequently. Busy with various projects and winter season stuff!Today's post is a kind of response to a fairly common request...
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Brittle Stars that Steal Food From Jellyfish!
Ophiuroids on Jelly in Mozambique. Photo by Andrea Marshall, Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-3990782/index.html#i-570251ad33a88841And a HAPPY NEW 2017 to everyone! Yes. Obviously...
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Highlights from the recent NOAA Okeanos Explorer Samoa Expedition!
So, here is a nice highlight of various wonderful invertebrates observed by NOAA's deep-sea research vessel, the Okeanos Explorer which for all of 2016 and 2017 will be studying the massive marine...
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Okeanos Tropical Pacific Highlights: RARE and BRILLIANT Echinoderms!!
Over the last 10 days or so since Okeanos Explorer has resumed its ROV-telepresence based exploration of the Phoenix Islands and adjacent areas in the tropical Pacific they've seen some REMARKABLE...
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Okeanos Follow-up: Giant Sea-Spiders EAT! Cnidarians, Anemones, Hydroids &...
Many of you know that I occasionally "call in" when the NOAA deep-sea research platform Okeanos Explorer goes out to see on its missions. (remember the next leg BEGINS APRIL 27...
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Brittle Stars of (squid & fish) Death pt 2! Okeanos Explorer Edition!
This Saturday we were witness to one of the most AMAZING echinoderm related ecology/natural history moments that I've seen in awhile!Namely watching this brittle star CAPTURE and EAT SWIMMING PREY!.....
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Tremaster mirabilis! Five things I have learned about a Fantastic Starfish!
Baker IslandBack in 2008 I wrote a post about a great looking starfish that I wanted to know more about, a weird looking deep-sea star called Tremaster mirabilis! Â Its a striking looking animal and its...
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Five Highlights from my NEW paper about the genus Ferdina and its relatives!
GREETINGS! Last week, a new paper I've literally been working on since I finished my PhD has FINALLY been completed! Its easily my largest monograph at the moment and includes a whopping 14 new...
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BIG NEWS!!! Echinoblog Will be ON Okeanos Explorer!!
Some EXCITING news! I have signed on to join NOAA's research vessel Okeanos Explorer as the Biology co-Lead for their July Expedition Broad casting from (approximately) July 13 to August 1!...
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Okeanos Explorer Communities & Deep-Sea Discoveries!
I'm BACK! After a month at sea with 2.5 weeks worth of dives I've safely returned to "home base" in Washington DC! I was out in the central Pacific with NOAA's R/V Okeanos Explorer on their Laulima O...
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Pacific Northwest Sea Stars Names: EXPLAINED!!
So, a bit of bookkeeping- yes. I've been writing the blog less regularly. This has been largely a good problem to have: lots of other projects have been keeping me busy.. So, I'm mainly just writing...
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Unusual Surface Texture in Luidia ciliaris! Unknown natural history or ???
GREETINGS! and Happy New Year! Yes. Sorry. Its been awhile since I've blogged.. Lots of travelling and research are a good thing...but time for essential outreach can sometimes be fleeting!For my...
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Taxonomy Day 2018! Museum Trends from Starfish Travels!
So for the last 3 years, I've been lucky. There have been multiple opportunities for me to do field work but more importantly to visit museum all around the world in order to study the animals I love...
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The "starfish walking back to the sea" FAQ & why it is sad
So, apparently back in 2012, the original producer of this video shot this lone sea star out on a South Carolina beach as it was struggling to get back to the ocean, likely due to a mass stranding or...
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#PolychaeteDay 2018 Edition: Swimming Polychaete Worms!
Photo by Karen OsbornSo, Every July 1st is the , now posthumous, birthday of NMNH curator Kristian Fauchald, one of the most prolific taxonomists publishing on polychaete worms of the 20th Century!...
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