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	<description>The unexpected world of animals</description>
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		<title>CreatureCast- Jellyfish Theater</title>
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In the vast ocean, without walls and far from the floor,  jellyfish can become drifting islands of activity. Creatures from far and wide will congregate on them to act out the ups and downs of life and death. Jellyfish have symbiotic relationships with living things of all sizes, from fish and shrimp that feed off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1690-creaturecast-jellyfish-theater</link>
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		<title>Axolotls and the French Intervention</title>
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Léon-Eugène Méhédin was a photo-journalist in the mid 1800s. After documenting the Crimean War, the Italian Campaign of Napoleon III, and taking pictures in Egypt and Nubia for a photographic encyclopedia, he traveled to Mexico with the French Expeditionary Forces. There he claims to have discovered the ruins of Xochicalco. He took papier machê molds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1663-axolotls-and-the-french-intervention</link>
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		<title>More Budding Jelly Babies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found more jellyfish being born in our lab this week!
Rebecca Helm, a Dunn lab graduate student, left a couple of bowls of salt water and hydroids out on the table overnight, instead of the refrigerator where they usually live at around 50 or 60 degrees fahrenheit. The next day she came in and found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1618-more-budding-jelly-babies</link>
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		<title>Salty Pups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Death Valley, life can be difficult.  One might think that such a dry area would be a bad place for fish to live, and it is. But that is exactly why it is such a great habitat for this particular fish, Cyprinodon salinus, as well as the other desert pupfishes.
The salt creeks and pools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1592-salty-pups</link>
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		<title>Centerless Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sense that the self exists somewhere close to the brain or heart is an intuitive one for humans. It also seems to apply to most of the animals we regularly encounter, even when they can regrow parts of their body. When a crayfish gets into a tight spot and loses one of its claws, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1556-centerless-self</link>
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		<title>How do krill grow?</title>
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Early last year, at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), I saw an unusual sight: the birth of a live Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba.
The newborn appeared on a video screen that projected the view of a camera poised over a petri dish. A tremulous form emerged from its egg with its legs beating furiously!
This event began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1534-how-do-krill-grow-2</link>
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		<title>Bone Boring Worms</title>
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In 2002, while out roaming the depths in Monterey Bay Canyon with the remote operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon, MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek stumbled upon a whale carcass on the ocean floor, and noticed that it had its own little ecosystem. When a whale has died, its skeleton drops to the ocean floor, creating a habitat island [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1485-bone-boring-worms</link>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Nuclei</title>
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Mushrooms may look mundane, but they’ve got a lot going on underneath the surface.  In animals, each cell in a body contains one nucleus, and each nucleus has 2 copies of the genome, one from the mother, and one from the father, which fused at fertilization. Unlike in animals, where the nuclei of the egg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1446-a-tale-of-two-nuclei</link>
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		<title>Be still its beating heart</title>
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This animal is not the most agile swimmer in the sea. It&#8217;s called Nautilus, and it is closely related to cuttlefish and snails. But it swims backwards and often bumps into things.
Thankfully, it has a thick shell, and can retreat into it to avoid predators. And it also dives down deep into the sea during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1419-be-still-its-beating-heart</link>
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		<title>CreatureCast &#8211; Sea Stars</title>
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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&#8217;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&#8217;s, to their profound influence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creaturecast.org/archives/1360-creaturecast-sea-stars</link>
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