Four things EVERYONE needs to know about sharks

A curious case of convergent evolution?

Watching the ebb and flow

Love your invertebrate!
Once again, the time has come to compile the best marine invertebrate blog posts from around the interwebs. Have you written something awesome about inverts? Have you read something awesome you wish everyone would read? Are you still wondering just what the hell a cheatognath is? So send in your favorites. You can e-mail me at [...]

Ethical debate: Is conserving North Atlantic Right Whales worth the trouble?
The North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is one of the world’s most unique animals. Despite being 50 feet long, they are baleen whales that eat only plankton. They have an enormous head (up to 1/4 of the size of the body) with bowed lower lips. The head also has bizarre patches of rough skin [...]

WhySharksMatter speaking at Yale University next Friday
If any of our readers live near Yale, come on down to the KBT lecture hall next Friday at 4:00 p.m. Yale’s student chapter of Scientists for America will be hosting me. A question and answer session will follow my 45 minute talk. I hope to see you there! It’s always nice to meet our readers [...]

Swimming with sharks ad
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Blood and Brains – can vampires survive a zombie apocalypse?
The scenario is familiar to us all – Some sort of disease begins in a small town or large city, it spreads rapidly, infecting everyone in its wake, the infected become mindless, murderous creatures, hellbent on consuming or converting everyone they encounter, the walking dead. Finally, through some heroic effort, the survivors either turn back [...]