While watching a documentary on freshwater eels, I was surprised to learn that European and American freshwater eels are born…
Bonnie J. CardoneMarch 27, 2014
Many marine animals are hermaphrodites. Nudibranchs, for instance. It is thought that being able to mate with any same species…
Bonnie J. CardoneDecember 17, 2013
Of all the marine animals in the world, tunicates are vetebrates' closest relatives and that includes the class Mammalia (us).…
Bonnie J. CardoneNovember 26, 2013
It's a fact stranger than fiction: there are underwater creatures commonly found in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast…
Bonnie J. CardoneOctober 22, 2013
Ever look at a horse and wonder if it was a pig or a cat? Me neither. I have however,…
Bonnie J. CardoneAugust 30, 2013
Some of the prettiest creatures in the sea belong to the phylum Mollusca, most specifically the subclass Opisthobranchia, which includes…
Bonnie J. CardoneJuly 11, 2013
Taxonomists got it right when they assigned giant kelp its Latin name, Macrocystis pyrifera. It is indeed very large in…
Bonnie J. CardoneMay 14, 2013
Paper covers rock. Scissors cut paper. Rock dulls scissors. You know the game, right? In the California fish version, called…
Bonnie J. CardoneApril 23, 2013
Among the approximately 10,000 species that belong to the phylum Cnidaria (the ‚ "C" is silent), there are at least…
Bonnie J. CardoneMarch 13, 2013
