http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast A collaborative blog by the Dunn Lab and friends about the unexpected world of animals. http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_mysterious_disappearing_cuttlefish_218423 The story of the mysterious disappearing cuttlefish: cuttlefish have extraordina... Mon, 19 May 2014 15:26:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_mysterious_disappearing_cuttlefish_218423 2014-05-19T15:26:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_evolution_of_complexity_218422 An increase in average complexity across life through time is not evidence that ... Mon, 19 May 2014 15:24:30 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_evolution_of_complexity_218422 2014-05-19T15:24:30Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/a_tale_of_two_sea_218421 A tale of two sea urchins: the green urchin and the pencil urchin are alike in m... Mon, 19 May 2014 15:24:09 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/a_tale_of_two_sea_218421 2014-05-19T15:24:09Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/if_you_dont_have_it Sea slugs may seem vulnerable, but they don't make a meal for the faint of heart... Mon, 19 May 2014 15:23:48 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/if_you_dont_have_it 2014-05-19T15:23:48Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/moving_on_rainbowcolored_legs_cilia CreatureCast - Cilia from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . Cilia are slender s... Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:28:23 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/moving_on_rainbowcolored_legs_cilia 2014-02-18T17:28:23Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/ancient_history_tyrian_purple CreatureCast - Tyrian Purple from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . Before the de... Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:45:49 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/ancient_history_tyrian_purple 2013-11-21T19:45:49Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_central_limit_theorum CreatureCast - Central Limit Theorem from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . ... Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:48:39 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_central_limit_theorum 2013-10-09T17:48:39Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/sexual_dimorphism_the_spoonworm CreatureCast - Spoonworm from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . Not all creatures a... Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:15:56 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/sexual_dimorphism_the_spoonworm 2013-10-08T16:15:56Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/larvacean_houses CreatureCast - Larvacean Houses from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . Have you... Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:14:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/larvacean_houses 2013-10-08T16:14:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/untangling_dna CreatureCast - Untangling DNA from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . From So... Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:25:29 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/untangling_dna 2013-09-04T20:25:29Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/another_test_post OK folks, it's time to see a fantastic web application for showing/understanding... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:31:53 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/another_test_post 2013-06-10T01:31:53Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/6_tips_for_achieving_invisibility How to hide? It's a common question among animals. Hiding from danger in the dee... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:03:59 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/6_tips_for_achieving_invisibility 2013-04-18T15:03:59Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/apolemia These three specimens belong to two new species of Apolemia ( Hydrozoa:Siphonoph... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:12:47 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/apolemia 2013-02-28T22:12:47Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/chestnut_blight Maybe you've tasted chestnuts roasting over an open fire, but have you ever hear... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:11:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/chestnut_blight 2013-02-28T22:11:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/nautilus How does the nautilus swim underwater, even though it has no fins and lives in a... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:05:09 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/nautilus 2013-02-28T22:05:09Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/mud_skipper The phrase "like a fish out of water" is often used to describe something out of... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:03:26 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/mud_skipper 2013-02-28T22:03:26Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/glaucus_atlanticus Sofia Castello y Tickell, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) cou... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:42:06 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/glaucus_atlanticus 2013-02-28T21:42:06Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_vertebrate_vascular_system Christine Janis , a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Bio... Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:10:44 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_vertebrate_vascular_system 2012-10-18T21:10:44Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/3d_printed_nematocyst If you have ever been stung by a jellyfish or coral you've already encountered ... Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:49:52 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/3d_printed_nematocyst 2012-10-11T17:49:52Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/narcomedusae Riley Thompson made this animation about the fascinating lifecycle of narco babi... Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:07:43 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/narcomedusae 2012-09-20T19:07:43Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/doliolids Robert Sandler tells the story of doliolid reproduction. The video was made with... Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:15:43 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/doliolids 2012-09-12T20:15:43Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/how_to_hide Riley Thompson, from the College of the Atlantic, tells the story of how animals... Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:14:04 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/how_to_hide 2012-09-12T20:14:04Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/ocean_slime Robert Sandler tells the story of ocean slime, using stop motion and jellyfish p... Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:09:30 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/ocean_slime 2012-09-12T20:09:30Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/zoostalgia Manvir Singh, author of the Lifecycles pamphlet, has a new book out — Zoostal... Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:12:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/zoostalgia 2012-07-05T21:12:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/round We have a front and a back and two legs. We walk around on our two legs. When we... Fri, 18 May 2012 14:05:01 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/round 2012-05-18T14:05:01Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_ginko Eliza Cohen, from Erika Edwards ’ Plant Diversity course at Brown University (B... Fri, 18 May 2012 13:53:22 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_ginko 2012-05-18T13:53:22Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_corn CreatureCast — Corn from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . Arisa Lohmeier, from Erika ... Thu, 10 May 2012 20:28:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_corn 2012-05-10T20:28:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/lancet_liver_fluke Pathikrit Bhattacharyya (aka Po), from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:32:53 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/lancet_liver_fluke 2012-03-16T20:32:53Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/echinoderm_skin Karen Connolly, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Bro... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:32:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/echinoderm_skin 2012-03-16T20:32:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/rhizocephala Stephanie Yin, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brow... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:31:12 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/rhizocephala 2012-03-16T20:31:12Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/jumping_spider Amber Harris, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brown... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:30:19 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/jumping_spider 2012-03-16T20:30:19Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/lifecycles_by_manvir_singh We are pleased to present our first pamphlet - an illustrated guide to the lifec... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:48:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/lifecycles_by_manvir_singh 2012-03-16T14:48:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/anglerfish Lara Crystal, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brown... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:27:58 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/anglerfish 2012-03-16T14:27:58Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/tardigrades Katherine Hadley and Jonathan Leibovic, from Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology (... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:23:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/tardigrades 2012-03-16T14:23:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/resurrection_fern Rebecca Haumann describes how some plants deal with drought by completely drying... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:13:43 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/resurrection_fern 2012-03-16T14:13:43Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/passing_cloud Male kangaroos kick at each other. Male elephant seals gore each other with thei... Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:12:01 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/passing_cloud 2011-09-14T15:12:01Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/gelatinous_animals Our friend Steve Haddock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has... Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:06:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/gelatinous_animals 2011-06-02T19:06:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/hollow_trees Here is a little plant that starts it's life high up in the tree tops, where it ... Mon, 23 May 2011 14:40:13 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/hollow_trees 2011-05-23T14:40:13Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/postdoc_position_available_in_the A postdoc position is available in the Dunn Lab . The postdoc will develop new ... Mon, 23 May 2011 14:34:30 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/postdoc_position_available_in_the 2011-05-23T14:34:30Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/life_on_a_lobster_mouth Symbion pandora is a microscopic animal that lives exclusively on the mouth-par... Wed, 11 May 2011 19:38:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/life_on_a_lobster_mouth 2011-05-11T19:38:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/exciting_announcement Dear Creature Cast @Scitable readers, Some great news! Creature Cast's foun... Wed, 04 May 2011 14:47:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/exciting_announcement 2011-05-04T14:47:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/antartic_krill_love_dance This is a really nice video that was published in the Journal of Plankton Resear... Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:09:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/antartic_krill_love_dance 2011-03-08T15:09:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/gyrodactylids Here is a video from Robert Sandler, an undergraduate in Casey Dunn's Biology041... Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:49:07 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/gyrodactylids 2011-01-28T13:49:07Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/chasing_ghosts_in_aotearoa Few places capture the biologist's imagination quite like New Zealand. A fragmen... Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:25:51 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/chasing_ghosts_in_aotearoa 2011-01-18T17:25:51Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/tangled_string This video is about the enzymes that, for me, first turned cells into little toy... Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:33:44 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/tangled_string 2011-01-10T14:33:44Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/waiting_for_the_bus A couple of days ago when waiting for the bus at Kennedy Plaza near Burnside Pa... Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:53:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/waiting_for_the_bus 2011-01-06T15:53:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/practical_computing_for_biologists I'm happy to announce the release of Practical Computing for Biologists , a b... Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:47:03 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/practical_computing_for_biologists 2011-01-04T15:47:03Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_stomatopod_strike This podcast comes from Nati Chen, a sophomore in Casey Dunn 's Bio 0410 Inver... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:47:50 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_stomatopod_strike 2010-12-14T18:47:50Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/moray_eel Here is the first of this semester's creaturecasts from the students in Casey D... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:36:11 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/moray_eel 2010-12-03T17:36:11Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/gone_fishing This video was taken by a submarine sent down into the ocean to collect deep sea... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:56:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/gone_fishing 2010-11-01T14:56:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/perspective_of_a_bird Male bower birds boast an architectural prowess, it is true. They also have a di... Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:34:17 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/perspective_of_a_bird 2010-10-26T13:34:17Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/know_your_new_england_bioluminescants Toward the end of the summer the waters around southern Rhode Island get quite s... Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:19:50 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/know_your_new_england_bioluminescants 2010-10-07T13:19:50Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/jellyfish_capsule_hotel These little pinkish crustaceans have set up house inside the muscular pulsating... Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:30:34 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/jellyfish_capsule_hotel 2010-10-01T14:30:34Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/siphonophore_snacks_171705 Here’s a short episode featuring Trisha Towanda, of the fried-egg jelly story .... Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:40:17 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/siphonophore_snacks_171705 2010-09-20T15:40:17Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/what_is_a_cell A couple of months ago Casey Dunn talked about animals that don't have every on... Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:37:48 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/what_is_a_cell 2010-09-08T15:37:48Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/corals_and_coloniality Here is a new video podcast from Lee Stevens, a rising junior at Brown Universit... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:42:27 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/corals_and_coloniality 2010-08-12T20:42:27Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/jellyfish_theater In the vast ocean, without walls and far from the floor, jellyfish can become dr... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:33:43 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/jellyfish_theater 2010-07-20T12:33:43Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/axolotls_and_the_french_intervention Léon-Eugène Méhédin was a photo-journalist in the mid 1800s. After documenting ... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:16:06 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/axolotls_and_the_french_intervention 2010-07-16T13:16:06Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/more_budding_jelly_babies We found more jellyfish being born in our lab this week! Rebecca Helm, a D... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:06:53 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/more_budding_jelly_babies 2010-07-07T21:06:53Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/salty_pups In Death Valley, life can be difficult. One might think that such a dry area wou... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:41:52 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/salty_pups 2010-06-24T12:41:52Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/centerless_self The sense that the self exists somewhere close to the brain or heart is an intui... Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:43:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/centerless_self 2010-06-17T13:43:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/how_do_krill_grow Early last year, at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), I saw an unusual ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:50:24 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/how_do_krill_grow 2010-06-08T12:50:24Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/bone_boring_worms In 2002, while out roaming the depths in Monterey Bay Canyon with the remote op... Wed, 26 May 2010 15:49:26 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/bone_boring_worms 2010-05-26T15:49:26Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/a_tale_of_two_nuclei Mushrooms may look mundane, but they've got a lot going on underneath the surfac... Mon, 17 May 2010 14:30:06 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/a_tale_of_two_nuclei 2010-05-17T14:30:06Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/be_still_its_beating_heart This animal is not the most agile swimmer in the sea. It's called Nautilus , an... Fri, 07 May 2010 13:13:08 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/be_still_its_beating_heart 2010-05-07T13:13:08Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_sea_stars Here is another student contribution to the CreatureCast series, by Nathaniel C... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:52:09 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_sea_stars 2010-04-30T17:52:09Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/seeing_the_invisible Although we prefer pictures to represent reality as it is, that is often not the... Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:18:55 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/seeing_the_invisible 2010-04-22T16:18:55Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_individuality Last month we posted a video of a siphonophore (one of the Dunn Lab's favorite... Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:11:36 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_individuality 2010-04-09T14:11:36Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/hitching_a_ride When collecting bugs out in the field, it can be easy to get more than one barga... Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:53:25 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/hitching_a_ride 2010-03-30T19:53:25Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/tube_vision As a student of science, I love how even something close to home can take me co... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:14:33 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/tube_vision 2010-03-18T16:14:33Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_diving_for_jellies Here in the Dunn lab, siphonophores are our favorite animaland the focus of mu... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:49:12 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_diving_for_jellies 2010-03-08T18:49:12Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/after_the_fall Emperor Hirohito was a man who wore many hats. Most famously, he was Japan's hea... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:16:39 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/after_the_fall 2010-02-18T15:16:39Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/solar_powered_sea_slugs The slug pictured to the right, Elysia chlorotica , is a symbiont thief. E... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:04:44 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/solar_powered_sea_slugs 2010-02-10T17:04:44Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_picky_females CreatureCast - Picky Females from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . A couple of weeks... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:11:45 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_picky_females 2010-01-27T20:11:45Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/spicules_and_droplets When I was a kid and color television was rare, people would shrug away the need... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:29:25 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/spicules_and_droplets 2010-01-20T20:29:25Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_pattern_shifting_snails CreatureCast - Flamingo Tongue Snails from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . This is ... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:21:51 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_pattern_shifting_snails 2010-01-14T21:21:51Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_comb_jellies CreatureCast - Comb Jellies from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . This is the thir... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:57:15 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_comb_jellies 2010-01-11T14:57:15Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/stack_of_plates_in_action Strobilating Jellyfish from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . Look what we caught ha... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:35:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/stack_of_plates_in_action 2010-01-07T13:35:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/making_babies_like_a_stack Our own lifecycles are pretty simple. Making babies requires sex. Sex creates of... Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:57:18 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/making_babies_like_a_stack 2009-12-29T13:57:18Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_marine_worms CreatureCast - Marine Worms from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . This installment ... Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:36:25 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_8211_marine_worms 2009-12-23T14:36:25Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/pelagic_plastic We have managed to create a huge memorial to human waste at a location that is r... Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:17:32 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/pelagic_plastic 2009-12-22T18:17:32Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_episode_3 CreatureCast Episode 3 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . This installment o... Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:33:12 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_episode_3 2009-12-18T16:33:12Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/thou_shalt_covet_thy_neighbor8217s A small clarification, dear reader: in a recent post about the fantastic stingin... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:19:35 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/thou_shalt_covet_thy_neighbor8217s 2009-12-17T14:19:35Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_art_of_knotting Hagfish have a skull, but no spine. They diverged from vertebrates prior to the ... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:09:28 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/the_art_of_knotting 2009-12-16T14:09:28Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/star_colonies_of_sea_squirts Botryllus schlosseri is a colonial tunicate (or sea squirt), so named because... Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:00:28 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/star_colonies_of_sea_squirts 2009-12-09T21:00:28Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/postdoc_position_in_the_dunn A joint postdoc position is open in the labs of Casey Dunn and Alexis Stamatakis... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:09:02 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/postdoc_position_in_the_dunn 2009-12-08T17:09:02Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/mating_when_you_are_stuck If you are stuck to a rock it is tricky to get close enough to a partner to mate... Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:04:44 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/mating_when_you_are_stuck 2009-12-02T14:04:44Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/deadly_bands_73213 Cnidaria is a group of animals that includes — among other things — jellyfish, c... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:14:24 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/deadly_bands_73213 2009-11-20T18:14:24Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/mitochondrial_lenses When making observations of the tiny flatworms I study, I seldom paused to consi... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:28:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/mitochondrial_lenses 2009-11-12T21:28:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/marnix_everaert Many people are familiar with the dazzling plates of Haeckel's "Kunstformen der ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:29:57 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/marnix_everaert 2009-11-09T14:29:57Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/a_tale_of_two_holes I recently attended a meeting between the Dunn and Wessel labs about the evo... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:06:05 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/a_tale_of_two_holes 2009-11-06T12:06:05Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/fall_in_rhode_island The leaves are starting to turn and the garden is getting thin as most fruits an... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:55:39 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/fall_in_rhode_island 2009-10-30T14:55:39Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/glowing_worms_in_the_deep Bioluminescence can be used for myriad purposes in different species. This rece... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:46:04 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/glowing_worms_in_the_deep 2009-10-28T14:46:04Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/hiding_submarines_beneath_jellyfish With the advent of submarine warfare, the ability to locate large underwater obj... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:45:31 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/hiding_submarines_beneath_jellyfish 2009-10-26T11:45:31Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/retractable_spots The marine snail Cyphoma gibbosum browses on the polyps of soft corals (top). ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:46:16 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/retractable_spots 2009-10-22T16:46:16Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/evolution_by_co_option In the course of evolution organisms sometimes acquire completely new and someti... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:11:41 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/evolution_by_co_option 2009-10-20T23:11:41Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/glowing_worms_in_bermuda Reproduction is a complex business, and often requires that the partners meet. P... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:44:33 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/glowing_worms_in_bermuda 2009-10-19T14:44:33Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/erwin_keustermans Erwin Keustermans wrote me a couple years ago with some questions about symmetr... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:40:04 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/erwin_keustermans 2009-10-15T18:40:04Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_episode_2 In Episode 2 of CreatureCast, Sophia Tintori and Cassandra Extavour talk abou... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:49:47 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_episode_2 2009-10-15T14:49:47Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/kahikai Eric Roettinger and Mattias Ormestad have launched kahikai.org toshowcase some ... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:55:26 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/kahikai 2009-10-14T15:55:26Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_episode_1 We are pleased to present Episode 1 of CreatureCast, by Sophia Tintori. In this... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/creaturecast_episode_1 2009-10-07T00:00:01Z http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/siphonophore_viedo Siphonophores from Casey Dunn on Vimeo . These siphonophore clips were p... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:34:53 GMT http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/creature-cast/siphonophore_viedo 2009-10-01T13:34:53Z