The orange brown sponge crab is certainly a unique crab. With small black eyes and a broad hunched shell, this crab certainly has character. Known for carrying sponges on their backs, hence the name, these critters get by by decorating…
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How do Astronauts Sleep? We don’t mean to get personal but we want to know how Astronauts sleep while swirling around in space? Do they snap themselves into some kind of wall hookup, or roll themselves up into cocoons, or…
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What lives under rocks, is really creepy, but has a pretty name? That would be porcelain crabs known for their highly decorative shell that shines magnificently despite the muck of the sea bed. They come in an assortment of colors,…
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The “Big Bang” theory has been widely accepted for many years. What I would like to know is, why? Why do people so strongly hold to this theory even though there has been no evidence that verifies it as fact,…
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Mictyris longicarpus, commonly called soldier crabs, “are about 1.5 cm wide. They have a small, round, blue body. They have long jointed legs with purple stripes. It gets its name from two characteristics; its habit of travelling in large numbers,…
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“The problem with Einstein’s paradox is that it doesn’t fold in biology-specifically, space radiation and the biology of aging,” says Frank Cucinotta, NASA’s chief scientist for radiation studies at the Johnson Space Center. Lots of research has gone into the…
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The Australian government recently announced plans to create the world’s largest ever marine reserve in the Coral Sea, according to coverage by the BBC. The reserve area would limit fishing and also prevent oil and gas exploration and drilling, protecting…
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Fish swim in schools because they were told to do so by their mothers for their own safety. It’s very similar to human teenagers walking in an amusement park together, when a Mother says, “Stay with the group when you…
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Whales are acoustic mammals. They use their hearing to follow migratory routes, find food, care for their young and locate one another. The process is called echolocation. Whale songs have long been studied to try and determine just how valuable…
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The Long Count calendar used by the Mayan people in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica “turns over” in the year 2012. Some have taken this to mean that the Mayans believed that the world would end on that date. However, there is no…
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