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	<description>The unexpected world of animals</description>
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		<title>CreatureCast &#8211; Diving for Jellies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in the Dunn lab, siphonophores are our favorite animal and the focus of much of our research.
Dr. Phil Pugh is a good friend of the lab, and he also happens to have described more new species of siphonophores than anyone who has ever lived. In the video below, he describes what it&#8217;s like to come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1064-creaturecast-diving-for-jellies</link>
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		<title>Royal jellies</title>
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Emperor Hirohito was a man who wore many hats. Most famously, he was Japan&#8217;s head of state during World War Two. As emperor, he was the stoic and elegant embodiment of Japan. But he was also a family man, a poet, and a marine biologist.
Hirohito had the Imperial Biological Laboratory built for him when he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1049-after-the-fall</link>
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		<title>Solar Powered Sea Slugs</title>
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The slug pictured above, Elysia chlorotica, is a symbiont thief.
Elysia chlorotica eats the alga Vaucheria litorea but does not digest it. The slug cuts open algal filaments and sucks out the contents, transferring the living chloroplasts to its own tissue. Chloroplasts are organisms that have lived symbiotically within plant cells for many millions of years. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/897-solar-powered-sea-slugs</link>
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		<title>CreatureCast &#8211; Picky Females</title>
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A couple of weeks ago the Dunn lab went out after work, and we got to talking. There&#8217;s this thing that usually happens whenever we get together after a day in the lab or field– being a group where everyone focuses in one way or another on the diversity and evolution of reproduction and development, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/970-creaturecast-picky-females</link>
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		<title>Spicules and droplets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid and colour television was rare, people would shrug away the need for it saying that the only good reason for having a colour set would be marine documentaries.
But it&#8217;s not only the colours and optics that are different, also form and movement are part of the experience. Life in water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/770-spicules-and-droplets</link>
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		<title>CreatureCast &#8211; Pattern Shifting Snails</title>
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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&#8217;s earlier post.
Video, music, and narration by Chris Vamos. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/961-creaturecast-pattern-shifting-snails</link>
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		<title>CreatureCast &#8211; Comb Jellies</title>
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This is the third of four contributions from undergraduates in Casey Dunn&#8217;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.
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		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/952-creaturecast-comb-jellies</link>
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		<title>Stack of plates in action</title>
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Look what we caught happening in our refrigerator.
While doing a fridge clean-out in the Dunn Lab, graduate student Rebecca Helm took a look at a forgotten bowl of Chrysaora colorata polyps from our friends Chad Widmer and Wyatt Patry at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. These creatures were left over from an RNA extraction we had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/931-stack-of-plates-in-action</link>
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		<title>CreatureCast &#8211; Marine Worms</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/918-creaturecast-episode-4</link>
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		<title>Making babies like a stack of plates</title>
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Our own lifecycles are pretty simple. Making babies requires sex. Sex creates offspring with new unique combinations of genes. Many organisms are also capable of asexual reproduction, which doesn&#8217;t involve sex (as the name implies) and involves only one parent. In most types of asexual reproduction, genes aren&#8217;t reshuffled and the offspring are genetic clones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/587-making-babies-like-a-stack-of-plates</link>
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