{"id":283,"date":"2008-11-19T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2008\/11\/the_beauty_of_biscuits\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T21:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:22:46","slug":"the-beauty-of-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2008\/11\/the-beauty-of-biscuits\/","title":{"rendered":"the beauty of biscuits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; sea biscuits, that is &#8211; what we call sand dollars. PZ has just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/11\/the_heartbreaking_beauty_of_de.php#comments\">a video clip of the early development of sand dollars<\/a>, &amp; it&#8217;s absolutely gorgeous. It starts, as he says, with a bit of echinoderm porn &#8211; I never knew that sand dollar sperm looks like that whipped &#8216;cream&#8217; stuff that come out of a pressurised can! And then you get to see fertilisation, cleavage, the early larval stages &#8211; which baby sand dollars spend, like all other echinoderm larvae, as plankton &#8211; and metamorphosis into this gorgeous little juvenile. Which is&nbsp;<i>tiny<\/i> &#8211; the clip shows it moving about (on its little tube feet) among individual sand grains. Quite lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; sea biscuits, that is &#8211; what we call sand dollars. PZ has just posted a video clip of the early development of sand dollars, &amp; it&#8217;s absolutely gorgeous. 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