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...blew us away," says Dijanna Figueroa, a grad student in marine biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Nobody has ever seen deep-sea pictures as sharp as these. Among the wondrous creatures they spotted: a white octopus with earlike flaps known as a Dumbo octopus, an anglerfish with what look like primitive hands and a spindly 11-armed sea star. Some were previously unknown to science. "I came away asking new questions," says Figueroa. Viewers will come away in awe. --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York
SPECIAL DELIVERY Love is war for the male paper nautilus, whose idea of sex is to heave his manhood--and his genes--like a tiny torpedo into the female. Once implanted, the male organ serves as a built-in sperm bank. Similarly, the male anglerfish burrows into the belly of its much bigger mate and becomes a permanent, parasitic testicle. The female green spoon worm inhales the tiny male, who then resides in the androecium ("little man house"), a nook in the reproductive tract from which he fertilizes eggs...
...great wet world, that "swirling vortex of terror," has a companion in his search: Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a blue tang with a sunny disposition and a short-term memory problem. In their hunt for Nemo, they are aided and threatened by all manner of sea creatures: a menacing anglerfish, some not entirely trustworthy members of Sharks Anonymous, a school of shocking jellyfish and a family of surfer-dude sea turtles. In captivity, Nemo finds his own friends: Peach, the starfish (Allison Janney), and the tank commander Gill (Willem Dafoe), a tough who mutters, "Fish ain't meant...
Like its predecessors, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (Norton; $15.50) is a banquet of anecdotes, insights and revelations on natural history. The 30 essays range from a humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies...
...essays, which Gould selected from among those he has written for Natural History magazine, discuss such far-flung topics as Anglerfish and Mickey Mouse, Lamarckism and tides. The purpose of bringing these diverse subjects together in one volume. Gould tells us in his prologue, is to teach us something about evolutionary theory--no surprise to those who know Gould, professor of Geology, through his course Natural Sciences...
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