An exhibition of the world’s largest plastinated sea creatures opens at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. If you are familiar with the ‘Bodies Revealed’ exhibitions (human bodies and organs done with polymer preservation technique) the same technique has been applied to a variety of sea creatures. See the insides and outsides of 18 [...] Read More

A bull shark recently caught off the Florida coast when opened up contained two live fetuses, including one highly unusual one with two heads. A write up by the scientists, led by C. Michael Wagner of Michigan State University, has been published in the Journal of Fish Biology this week. More about the unusual shark [...] Read More

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp has found a way to make a one molecule thick graphene (carbon) membrane with holes about a nanometer in size that allows water molecules of a solution to pass through while using much less energy compared to current RO filters. “It’s 500 times thinner than the best filter on the [...] Read More

The marine community is mourning the lost of captive breeding industry pioneer and legend Bill (William) Addison. He was founder of C-Quest, the oldest operating marine ornamental fish hatchery in the country, starting in 1988. He was the third person recognized as a MASNA Aquarist of the Year. Coral Magazine has a nice article detailing [...] Read More