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April 8, 2008
Octopus mating games
 A male octopus (right) mates with a female by transfering packets of sperm to the female using a specialized mating arm.
Many animals (including humans) spend a great deal of time selecting and fighting to keep their mates. Octopuses, which tend to be loners, have never been shown to engage in such complicated reproductive strategies. However, a new research paper by MBARI postdoctoral fellow Christine Huffard shows that at least one type of octopus (and probably others) do engage in elaborate "mating games."  Oceanographers never know what types of old military hardware (and other trash) they will find on the seafloor.
March 10, 2008
Large quantities of chemical weapons sit on the seafloor, slowly degrading and posing a hazard to fishers and ocean scientists who stumble upon these stockpiles, according to a recent article by MBARI ocean chemist Peter Brewer and Noriko Nakayama of University of Tokyo. Read more. |
NEWS BRIEFS
Subtropical oceans add oxygen to Earth's atmosphere.  Giant sea spider
Among the stranger things that MBARI scientists see crawling around the deep seafloor are giant "sea spiders" or pycnogonids. More.
At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, our staff members are working extended hours Monday through every other Friday, generally between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. To reduce commute trips and conserve energy, we are closed every other Friday.
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