DC Loves Mollusks, Part the Last: Fossils and Live Ones!

I keep comparing NMNH to AMNH, because I just can’t help it. I’m at AMNH probably about once a month, so I just know it well. Their fossils of vertebrate origins, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, extinct mammals, and animal relatives are truly amazing. I bet they also have a dandy invertebrate fossil collection, but they don’t [...]

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Mollusks I’ve met: East Coast Aquariums, Part II

Baltimore’s aquarium was great, but what’s a vacation without two aquarium trips? The New England Aquarium has long been one of my favorites, because of the huge central tank with all the cool stuff in it, including three different species of sea turtles. Also, there are harbor seals you can see from outside that spend [...]

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Donors Choose Prizes and some links

The drive is over for this year, and I’ve emailed all of the prize winners. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who donated! Back to our regularly scheduled mollusk programming. A new large squid species was discovered! The specimen in that article looks like it has seen better days… Still not as disturbing [...]

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Friday Linkstravaganza

Weekly link roundup time! 1. What are you doing this weekend? Watching Sharktopus I hope! I was going to embed the trailer, but in fact it looks so godawful I thought better of it. I’ll hold out for Bearsharktopus. 2. Purdue researchers working on what makes oysters stick together. It seems that oysters are producing [...]

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Mollusk mating habits: indie film edition

Jon Stewart brought Isabella Rossellini’s work in short films about animal reproduction to my attention this week. She clearly loves how mollusks mate. These are honestly some of the strangest things I’ve ever seen captured on film, and I’m a fan of Werner Herzog (a German language Western film with an all little people cast? [...]

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