Cuttings (short and sweet):
- Watch this manta ray (or should I say mobula ray) at the Georgia Aquarium
Video by Georgia Aquarium
- Follow Serena Wong, a graduate student at SFU studying shark and ray respiratory physiology, on twitter!
- 9 reasons you can’t help but love manatees. By Katie Hogge, for the Ocean Conservancy blog
Spoils (long reads and deep dives):
- Scientists surprised to discover a new species of butterflyfish. By Mike Gaworecki, for MongaBay
- What’s making all that Arctic noise? By William Halliday, for National Geographic Voices.
- Parasite lost: did our taste for seafood drive an extinction? By John Platt, for the Revelator
- What can jellyfish teach us about climate change? By John Abraham, for the Guardian.
Share your own cuttings and spoils in the comments!
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