Cuttings (short and sweet):

• Watch how guitarfish pull their whole eyeball inside their skull instead of blinking (learn more about this here)
  

  Guitarfish can sink their eyeballs into their skull. Video courtesy AAAS. (This is research not wildlife harassment)

• Follow Norah Brown, a UBC graduate student studying ocean acidification’s influence on marine ecology, on twitter! 
• Dugong baby boom is good news for the Great Barrier Reef. By John Pickrell, for National Geographic.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

• Biodiversity moves beyond just counting species. By Rachel Cernansky, for Nature
• New species discovered behind a pub is saved from extinction. By Jeremy Hance, for the Guardian.
• Bioenergentics are key to keeping fish in the sea and in the store. By Caitlin Looby, for MongaBay.

 

Share your own cuttings and spoils in the comments!