Dept Of Marine Biology Karwar Ex-student

23/09/2020

Sonneratia alba species declared state mangrove tree of Maharashtra

The state government on Tuesday declared Sonneratia alba, or the mangrove apple, the official state mangrove tree. Maharashtra is the first coastal state in India to declare a state mangrove tree species to enhance conservation of the salt-tolerant vegetation. The government resolution (GR) issued o...

29/08/2020

Sarcastic fringeheads territorial behaviour off California coast. A video by BBC

The sarcastic fringehead plays no games when it comes to defending its territory, making it a particularly quarrelsome neighbour. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BB...

11/06/2020

The world’s largest population of nesting green turtles is nearly twice as big as previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday, after drones enabled bett...

06/06/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/science/ocean-biology-larvaceans-lasers.html

With a new laser-scanning tool, marine biologists are getting a fine-comb look at some of the gloopiest and most mysterious organisms in the ocean.

14/05/2020

13/04/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/25/great-barrier-reef-suffers-third-mass-coral-bleaching-event-in-five-years

Renowned scientist Terry Hughes says huge swathes of reef have been affected in a ‘severe’ situation

10/04/2020

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-filmed-the-longest-known-stringy-stingy-thingy-floating-in-the-ocean

New footage has revealed a trailing ribbon of conjoined tentacled clones sweeping the ocean off the coast of Australia. Known in some regions as the "long stringy stingy thingy", siphonophores blur the line between organ and organism. They somehow ma

21/01/2020

I came across an article published in livescience, interesting enough for raising antennas of a curious biologist.

Modern birds can trace their origins to theropods, a branch of mostly meat-eaters on the dinosaur family tree.

14/12/2019

Thousands of 'P***s Fish' Wash Up on California Beach and Social Media is 'Shook'
According to a report, these creatures are marine worms and are called “fat innkeeper worms.”
Following a bout of winter storms, thousands of ph***ic shaped sea creatures have drifted to the shore on a California beach. Due to its shape, the “pulsing p***s fish” have raised eyebrows on social media.
Ivan Parr, biologist from the Western Section of The Wildlife Society, first spotted the creatures and explained that 10-inch creature typically lives underwater.
According to a report by Bay Nature magazine, these creatures are marine worms and are called “fat innkeeper worms.” However, colloquially, they are called exactly what they look like: p***s fish.
The caption informed, “A recent storm in Northern California brought strong waves that washed away several feet of sand from the inter-tidal zone, leaving all these fat innkeeper worms exposed on the surface.”
The New York Post reported that the creature typically eats bacteria, plankton and other small particles which it collects using “sticky mucus nets”. It further informed that the creatures’ dates back 300 million years and also can be eaten.
An anonymous employee at The Post, who has eaten the worm in Shanghai, China, has described the taste as “a Livestrong band mated with a clam.”
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