In this latest installment of “stuff I’ve found in a shark stomach,” something was eaten by a spiny dogfish in the process of munching on something else. While looking at stomach contents lavaged out of dogfish captured during the 2016 winter tagging cruise, I found,…
There’s a bit of a pardox of public opinion regarding the effectiveness of spiny dogfish as predators. Depend on who you ask, they’re either forming a swimming wall of teeth annihilating everything in their path or they’re weak scavengers, poor excuses for sharks. This much-maligned…
Long time no post, I know. The main reason for that has been the sheer amount of field work I’ve found myself involved with this semester, all of which somehow came to a head in the past month. On the bright side, now that I’m…
Lots of cool talks today as this conference continues to be very good at keeping me busy. Check below the jump for the rundown on what I found interesting.
Hagfish are awesomely disgusting creatures. My first personal encounter was seeing their handiwork (and then seeing the fish themselves) while gillnetting off of Massachusetts. The sheer amount of slime produced by these little monsters has long been thought to function as a sort of predator…