04/28/2026
A dozen new residents at NOAA Galveston... the deepwater heterotrophic scleractinian Lophelia / Desmophyllum - life history and population dynamics, anatomy and physiology, ecology and feeding ecology, and conservation biology... cool stuff.
12/07/2025
MDBC Coral Propagation Team mesophotic stony coral work... digging the different morphology in polyp tentacles.
08/06/2023
Eye to eye with relict fishes… alligator, longnose and spotted gars…
03/02/2023
How a nesting leatherback sea turtle hides her nest… keep walking mister. nothing to see here…
And nesting season begins 🐢
The Research Department at Loggerhead Marinelife Center has documented the first leatherback nest for the 2023 season on Juno Beach this morning!
The first leatherback nest of the season in the state of Florida was documented by EAI in Delray Beach on February 16th!
02/03/2023
Who snuck the loggerhead egg in the chicken coop…
01/21/2023
Cool stuff from loggerhead sea turtles…
12/17/2022
Happy heavenly birthday Margaret Mead - December 16, 1901
I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had…
11/29/2022
All creatures great and small… the Appalachian hellbenders
The Last Dragons - Protecting Appalachia's Hellbenders
An intimate glimpse at North America's Eastern Hellbender, an ancient salamander that lives as much in myth as in reality.... and in many waters, myths are…
07/23/2022
An assortment of Atlantic ghost crab burrows… All found during 0700 sea turtle nesting patrol at Sea Isle, Galveston County, TX, on Saturday, July 9… fantastic biology and ecology of these decapods…
06/02/2022
Very cool stuff regarding the Gulf of Mexico…
Research shows how the Gulf of Mexico escaped ancient mass extinction
An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf of Mexico, where life was sheltered by the basin's unique geology—according to research by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).