Here is a video from Robert Sandler, an undergraduate in Casey Dunn’s Biology0410 Invertebrate Zoology class. In this video Robert introduces gyrodactylids, a group of flatworms that live attached to fish.
Video by Robert Sandler, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, with music by the Alabama Sacred Heart Singers.
This podcast comes from Nati Chen, a sophomore in Casey Dunn‘s Bio 0410 Invertebrate Zoology class here at Brown University. In this video, Nati describes how this crustacean is able to move its appendages faster than could possibly be accounted for by muscles alone.
All of the artwork and edited was done by Natividad Chen, and many of the sound effects are real recordings of stomatopods, provided graciously by the Patek lab at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Here is the first of this semester’s creaturecasts from the students in Casey Dunn‘s Bio 0410 Invertebrate Zoology class here at Brown. Students in this class have the option of making a creaturecast episode for their final project. This one from Phil Lai introduces the Moray Eel and describes the amazing way they eat.
This video was drawn and edited by Phil, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Enjoy!
Here is a new video podcast from Lee Stevens, a rising junior at Brown University. In this episode Lee takes a closer look at corals. Corals tend to be known as home to a dynamic menagerie of animals, bacteria and plants, but the coral itself is also a pulsating community in it’s own right.
This video was produced by Lee Stevens, with music by Transient. It is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
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Here is another student contribution to the CreatureCast series, by Nathaniel Chu. Nathaniel is a sophomore at Brown University, and was in Casey Dunn’s Invertebrate Zoology course last fall. In this audio piece, Nathaniel talks (and sings) about sea stars, from their run-in with the oyster industry in the early 1900’s, to their profound influence on that stretch of land between high tide and low tide, known as the intertidal zone.
Also featured are the voices of Dr. Chris Harley from the University of British Columbia, and Dr. Mark Bertness of Brown University.
This podcast is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. Photograph by Dr. D. Gordon E. Robertson. If you’d like, you can download this podcast here.
This is the fourth of four contributions from undergraduates in Casey Dunn’s Bio0041 Invertebrate Zoology class. This episode is inspired by the fascinating behavior of the flamingo tongue snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, which is described in further detail in Casey Dunn’s earlier post.
Video, music, and narration by Chris Vamos. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Deriviatives 3.0 United States License.
This is the third of four contributions from undergraduates in Casey Dunn’s Bio0041 Invertebrate Zoology class. In this episode, Daniella Prince describes the many wonders of comb jellies.
Video by Daniella Prince, with music by Ben Esposito. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
This installment of CreatureCast is the second of several contributions that were done as final projects by undergraduate students in Casey Dunn’s Invertebrate Zoology class at Brown University. In episode 4, sophomore Noah Rose delves into the bottom half of the circle of life, where dead things decompose and elements that can then be incorporated into other living organisms are liberated. Noah discusses how the many-legged worms we tend to think of as fish bait impact this process.
This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. The video and sound work was done by Noah Rose, with music by Noah Rose.
This installment of CreatureCast is the first of several contributions that were done as final projects by undergraduate students in Casey Dunn‘s Bio0410 Invertebrate Zoology class at Brown University. In episode 3 sophomore Lee Stevens discusses how comb jellies move the same way that many single-celled organisms do, which is remarkable given how much bigger comb jellies are.
This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Narrated and animated by Lee Stevens, with music by Tracky Birthday (this song, and also this one).