Dr. Roy back in the news again

[biomekanic]

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/11/14_shrimp.shtml

very cool stuff!

 

[Gonodactylus]

Thanks for calling attention to this. I forgot that it was up. The video of the Lysiosquillina catching a fish was taken at night with blue light that causes the stomatopod to fluoresce.

In fact, many stomatopods fluoresce, so if you have a uv light or one of the new "blue" aquarium lamps being sold to simulate moonlight, take a look at your animal.

Roy

 

[Isaari]

Good reading and great video. Thanks.

 

[njmar1]

Looks kind of like those glo-fish, hehe. Roy, are you back from your sabbatical yet? Good to see you post.

 

[Gonodactylus]

Nope, I'm still in Australia, but I'm at the University of Queensland for a while and have email access. Next month it is back into the field and off line again.

Roy

 

[njmar1]

Cool, have fun scuba diving- sounds pretty neat to study stomatos for a living Better than hacking and pulling teeth . I wish I were a marine biologist...