The Florida Sea-Monster

A Monster Resembling a Mermaid (Sea-Nymph)

Sir,?On 6th October morning, I was called upon to see an infant bom at 9 a.m. the same day. The infant's body was normal down to the pelvis; but both the lower extremities from the hip joint down to the feet -were joined. There was no big joint visible below the pelvis. This whole structure was slightly bent with concavity at its dorsum. All the ten toes ^ere normal and presented the appearance...

Artificial Reefs: the Florida Sea Grant Connection

Artificial reefs in Florida have been especially popular since the 1970s. With the advent of State Legislative funding in the 1990s, numerous local government and private interests have been able to develop reefs. The principal purpose is to enhance recreational fishing opportunities. But there are an increasing number of reefs being built as scuba diving sites and also to repair or mitigate da...

Phylogenetics links monster larva to deep-sea shrimp

Mid-water plankton collections commonly include bizarre and mysterious developmental stages that differ conspicuously from their adult counterparts in morphology and habitat. Unaware of the existence of planktonic larval stages, early zoologists often misidentified these unique morphologies as independent adult lineages. Many such mistakes have since been corrected by collecting larvae, raising...

The “monster” Study

The diagnosogenic (semantogenic) theory for the onset of stuttering was initially proposed by Wendell Johnson in the early 1940s. It suggested that calling attention to a child’s normal hesitations (repetitions) could precipitate stuttering (Bloodstein, 1987). Some of the evidence that Johnson used to support this theory (e.g., certain tribes of American Indians, in which there appeared to be n...

Taming the Cookie Monster