by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Nov 12, 2015 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Watching her captive reef When she saw a sea spider Eat the zoanthid beside her, It gave her a lot of grief. Now, the first question you need to ask yourself, before you proceed any further in this essay is, “What is a Tuffet?” In...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Aug 13, 2015 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
The time is in the early 1860’s, in the midst of the American Civil War, but no matter, science moves on. One of the early American pioneers of malacology, the study of mollusks, was Augustus Addison Gould, who was born in 1805 and graduated from Harvard College...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jul 27, 2015 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
One of the reasons I enjoy the reef aquarium hobby is the continual chance to see something odd. The regular animals that I purchase for my systems are interesting enough, I suppose, but after a while they lack the pizzazz that comes with seeing something brand new in...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jan 28, 2015 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
A day or so ago I was contacted by a researcher doing some research into forensic science. The questions being asked concerned the decomposition of bodies underwater. For those of you who watch or watched the CSI-type shows, this researcher was creating the analogue...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Aug 26, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Puget Sound King Crabs, exceptionally slowly growing crabs, with a massive adult body, are among the most colorful animals found in the Northeastern Pacific. They live most of their life in deep water, but come up into the shallows to molt, and incidentally display...
