Where’s the Whale? Quiz
On this World Whale Day, we’ve been diving deep into the archives to find our most interesting research on our aquatic friends. Recreationally, around the… Read more »
Alexander looks after BMC's animal and plant journals, with a special focus on marine sciences. On his downtime he can be found at live music and comedy, or running RPG's.
Latest posts by Alexander Mulhern (see all)
- Where’s the Whale? Quiz - 15th February 2019
- What webs we weave: spiders influence on food webs above and below ground - 7th March 2018
- World Oceans Day 2017 – State of the Seven Seas - 8th June 2017
What webs we weave: spiders influence on food webs above and below ground
A recent paper in Zoological Letters has explored the use of DNA metabarcoding to understand spider influence on food webs in a deciduous forest. Analysing… Read more »
World Oceans Day 2017 – State of the Seven Seas
For a body that covers 71% of the Earth’s surface, the oceans of our planet still remain enigmatic to most. With the NOAA estimating the amount of the ocean… Read more »
Mysterious and rare whale, spotted in new waters
This April saw the first sighting of Pygmy Killer Whales in the waters of Mozambique. These enigmatic creatures are extremely rare, often misidentified, and… Read more »
Diving into dolphin research
April 14th 2016 marks Dolphin Day; a day to focus on the majesty - and the plight - of our nearest intellectual cousins. We decided to take a look at just a few… Read more »
Marine Biodiversity Records goes Open Access
This week marks the launch of Marine Biodiversity Records at BioMed Central, official journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Marine… Read more »
Reversing climate change: planetary engineering and experimental technologies
In 1964 the Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale to measure the level of a civilisation’s technological advancement. A Type I civilisation… Read more »
Climate Change around the World
Climate change is a planetary phenomenon, and it's effects are many and varied. So we've put together this interactive map, showing the tangible effects… Read more »
Congratulations it’s a boy: the impact of climate change on turtle gender
Climate change is predicted to cause sweeping effects on the world’s biomes, but one of the most peculiar will be on certain reptilian species who employ a… Read more »