And you thought your family was weird…
Posted in Humor, Science on January 20th, 2009 by Paul Cancellieri
Courtesy of NotRocketScience
Deep-sea biology has always interested me, mainly because of the sheer enormity of what we don’t yet know about the creatures that live in this unique habitat.
Nothing beats the conclusions of a recent genetic study by David Johnson at The Smithsonian confirming the work of a Japanese group. Breaking it all down is Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science in a recent post. In a nutshell, there are three very different organisms that turn out to be the larva, male, and female of the same species. Imagine what doors this opens up for re-investigating what we already “know”.
