Glass-bottomed boat...

I take today's blog post title from a Doris Day movie of the same name. The plot is a little zany - girl meets true love at a generic NASA but must dodge mistaken identity and real Russian spies to win the day, singing sporadically - but I love Doris. She managed to be both independent and quirky and very feminine at the same time. She can take care of herself too. In this movie she does all the heavy-lifting of defeating the spy for whom she has been mistaken.

Anyways, that is a very long-winded introduction to today's theme: bizarre sea creatures. None of the following beauties would Doris have been able to see from her movie father's glass-bottomed boat...

Yahoo! News posted all three of these articles (must have been a run on seafood stories that day). It seems researchers/scientists in have found a new species of crab off the coast of Taiwan. This one bears a striking resemblance to a strawberry with its little white bumps all over its red shell. The scientists only found two examples, and it's unclear where they have been hiding all this time.

A part of scientific research has been rocked with the recent discovery of fossilized tetrapod footprints that date from way before scientists thought mammals crawled from water to land. The footprints were found over a period of five years in Poland and have been duly examined and verified. Theories have been bandied about as to what led creatures from water to land, and now they will have to be questioned; but in true scientific form, researchers are cautioning people not to get all excited just yet - these footprints could just belong to the world's earliest adopters....

Back to water-dwelling creatures for a second, the journal Science has published findings by a group of researchers that states a certain type of fish appears to have "manners." These fish, which clean parasites off bigger fish, seem to practice third-party punishment. This fascinates me since I never really thought fish were all that advanced in their thinking, much less thought at all.