Beef's Reef

01/17/2023

On Drakes Beach in California, thousands of “pen*s fish” have washed ashore. Urechis caupo is a species of marine spoonworm that spends the most of its life burrowed in the soft silt of the sea bed. It is better recognized by its more ph***ic name for rather obvious reasons. These worms, sometim...

12/30/2022

They might look like a 'muppet' character, but make no mistake, 'wobbegongs' are definitely sharks. But unlike most sharks that lurk in waters searching for their next meal, these guys just sit on the ocean floor... and wait. Lying still, the tasselled wobbegong can open its mouth wide and expand its throat to suck in crustaceans and fish as they swim by.
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10/24/2022

This is what the skeleton of a puffer fish looks like when inflated!
And those spines are composed of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite, protein(collagen), and water, the same materials as scales. So basically, these spines are just modified scales.
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10/10/2022

10/01/2022

07/01/2022

Basically, Idiomysis shrimp are cute, social and love to dance

04/28/2022

A little humor for the day...
(Off the mark . com Mark Parisi)

04/21/2022

A slug... or is it a leaf?
The slugs, Elysia chlorotica, which exist off the coast of the United States, can live for almost a year by surviving off sunlight and CO2 just like plants do. Experiments revealed this sea slug which starts out its life journey primarily eating algae, eventually evolves to survive mainly thru photosynthesis and can live for nine months or more without traditional feeding. This is an example of kleptoplasty or chloroplastic symbiosis.
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Photo: Patrick J. Krug

01/18/2021

12/07/2020

“Life is magical, under the sea”
Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, yet they are home to almost 25% of all known marine species
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11/25/2020

A brand new $55 million dollar project is now open in Branson, and it’s impossible to miss it.

09/03/2020

A Hammerhead shark made out of hammer heads.
Sculpture by Matt Sanders

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03/13/2020

Were you ever told that if you swallowed any apple seeds, a tree would start growing in your stomach? Well, these medical case studies are a bit like that,

12/26/2019

11/20/2019

10/25/2019

A fisherman lost at sea for 14 days off the coast of Florida has been rescued by the United States Coast Guard this week. Alvin McCallister, 72, was found on a small rocky islet 200 miles off the nearest coastline where he shipwrecked two weeks ago and managed to survive off of several seagulls, mu

10/05/2019

08/17/2019

A phenomenon that makes coral spawn more than once a year is improving the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef. The discovery was made by researchers investigating whether corals that split their spawning over multiple months are more successful at spreading their offspring across different reefs.