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Showing off the exotic, the bizarre and the marvelous in your sitting room: marine life in cabinets of curiosities and their precursors
Roxani and I have often reflected on the nature of our fascination with marine creatures and the people of the sea...
archivesofthesea
Oct 17, 202314 min read


Dangers of the Deep: marine “man-eaters” and the humans who fear them
Ένας κωμικός χαρακτήρας στο έργο του Άλεξι «Ελληνίς» στα τέλη του 4ου αι. π.Χ. το λέει ξεκάθαρα: «Ζωντανά ή νεκρά, τα ψάρια πολεμούν μαζί...
archivesofthesea
Aug 5, 202317 min read


Glimpses of sharks’ fins around Arabia
My first encounter with detached sharks’ fins was at a fishing village near Ra’s al-Khaymah in the homonymous emirate on the Persian Gulf...
archivesofthesea
Apr 24, 20239 min read


Bogue, the underdog of fishes
This post is about a fish with a funny scientific name: Boops boops. In English it is known as bogue, a name that embodies lots of...
archivesofthesea
Mar 19, 20236 min read


Fish that became drums, shields, pouches, shoes, and dazzling garments
In a nightmarish scene from Saudi director Shahad Ameen’s remarkable short film Eye and Mermaid, a group of fishermen have entrapped...
archivesofthesea
Jan 24, 202310 min read
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