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Giant isopods are so coolĀ but whatās with the sexy funk music
most sexual motherfucker in the ocean.Ā
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Procrastination via drawing an entire insect phylogeny. Might sell prints of it at some point! :)
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This parasite wasp uses saw-like spikes to cut its host open from the inside
Itās only the size of a sesame seed, but a newly discovered parasitoid wasp has enormous saw-like spines that could be used for a grisly purpose. Dendrocerus scutellaris could be looking for mates - or tearing its way out of a hostās body from the inside.
We donāt actually know for sure, because the Costa Rican insect hasnāt been observed by scientists in the wild - itās only known from preserved specimens in Londonās Natural History Museum collected in 1985.
But a research team led by PhD candidate Carolyn Trietsch of the Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State was able to piece together details about how the wasp lives based on other species of the Dendrocerus genus, and its morphology, even with specimens over 30 years old.
Because other Dendrocerus wasps are parasitoids, itās reasonable to conclude that D. scutellaris is also a parasitoid. Not to be confused with parasitic, which means to live in a host without killing it, parasitoids live free of a host, but provide their eggs with one - often the young larvae will feast on the body of their host before they move on.
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there is a knocking at my window i wonder if it is a boy come to confess his love for me
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Do you know what a baby nautilus looks like? Do you want to see what a baby nautilus looks like?Ā
Squee! Chambered nautilus are hatching at the Aquarium!!
As a second grader, seven-year-old Ellen Umeda charted her hopes and dreams in a journal, including this entry:
āWhen I grow up, I want to work at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.ā
Today, Aquarist Ellen Umeda is doing just that ā and breaking new ground as she raises one of the most challenging species housed at any aquarium: the chambered nautilus.The Sunnyvale native and UC San Diego graduate is taking the lead in caring for our first-ever chambered nautilus hatchlings, and trying new approaches that could someday lead to a breakthrough in raising and breeding these beautiful, shelled cephalopods. āIām lucky to be working with an animal thatās still quite a mystery,ā Ellen said. āThere are so many unknowns.ā
Nautilus eggs! Youāre looking at em! WHOA! Did that one move?
No one, for example, has seen a nautilus egg in the wild ā perhaps because theyāre laid at depths beyond where recreational scuba divers can safely go. They can range below 100 meters (330 feet deep) ā but do the young develop in warmer waters, closer to the surface, or in cooler, deeper waters? These are some of the unknowns Ellen has to contend with as she tries to take the rearing of chambered nautilus beyond the point her colleagues have achieved.
Wheee! After developing for over a year, a fully-formed nautilus emergesāwith a little yolk left over.
As a member of the team that cares for the animals in our Tentacles special exhibition, Ellen raises many of the species we exhibit, including cuttlefishes and squids. She and her teammates have built a successful track record with species that no other aquarium had raised before.
Chambered nautilus present an entirely new set of challenges. Sheās been wrestling with those challenges since the first nautilus egg hatched in late July. Several others have hatched since then. Starting in the 1980s, colleagues at Waikiki Aquarium, Omahaās Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, and Birch Aquarium in La Jolla began hatching and raising chambered nautilus they kept on exhibit. None of the hatchlings survived much more than a year. Toba Aquarium in Japan has also had success hatching nautiluses, with a few individuals surviving three years or longer ā including one individual that lived four and a half years.
Time for noms!
Ellen is drawing on the experience of colleagues at other aquariums, and the resources here in Monterey, to seek a breakthrough in chambered nautilus care. Sheās now caring for more than 150 nautilus eggs, and fewer than a half-dozen hatchlings. Theyāre housed under low-light conditions, some in cooler water and some in warmer, in behind-the-scenes holding areas. Sheās experimenting with the water temperature at which sheās keeping the eggs laid on exhibit by the adult nautiluses. And sheās working with Curator of Collections Joe Welsh, whoās pioneered the use of pressurized holding tanks for deep-water species.
Yeah, Iām adorable and my adaptations are awesome.Ā
Ellen believes raising chambered nautilus under pressure ā perhaps even putting eggs in a pressurized aquarium before they hatch ā could be the key to solving the problem of the young nautiluses becoming buoyant in the water column, rather than neutrally buoyant and able to maintain their position in the water. She thinks that the fluid-filled chambers that develop, section by section, in a growing chambered nautilus, may not function properly unless they form under pressure.
āSome of my colleagues thought that might be a solution, but they didnāt have the resources to pursue the idea,ā she says. Here, she noted, we have a track record of success with deep-water rockfishes that may point the way forward with chambered nautilus.
Bless you!
āWe need to experiment and try different things that mimic their environment in the wild, things that other people havenāt done,ā Ellen says. āI hope our animals will live longer, and that a greater percentage of them will hatch and survive. The ultimate goal would be to raise them to adulthood, have them lay eggs, and then raise the next generation.ā That, she admits, is probably a long ways off. Just as sheās benefited from the experiences of her predecessors, she hopes to contribute the next increment of progress.
āItās all steps,ā Ellen says. āRight now, itās live one more month, and then one more.ā
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On the Habits, Structure, and Relations of the Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes conurus, Is. Geoff.)Ā By Dr. James MurieĀ F.L.S., F.G.S., &C.
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Hogwarts Houses common rooms in Halloween seasonĀ
This is still one of the best executed jokes Iāve ever seen
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oh my god WHERE CAN I FIND THIS WHEN CAN I DO THIS GIVE IT TO ME *grabby hands*
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its human nature to want a bunch of small jars

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These jars in in our historic Alcohol House contain the contents of the stomachs of snakes that were collected for scientific study.
The Alcohol House is home to more than 250,000 amphibian and reptile specimens from around the world and is named for the 70% ethanol alcohol that preserve them.
Last one I swear. Blame @cyan-biologist for this horrible idea. #quicksquidsketch 80 min