by Annie Evankow | Feb 26, 2016 | News Briefs
You may have heard that one “human year” equals seven “dog years” because dogs age faster than humans. But did you know there’s a small multicolored fish that ages about 200 times faster than we do? The African turquoise killifish is the latest addition to the Ocean...
by Annie Evankow | Feb 10, 2016 | News Briefs
This Valentine’s Day, Ocean Genome Legacy is saying “be mine” to some rare and colorful samples of New England’s favorite crustacean, the American lobster. You know that cooked lobsters are bright red, and you may know that most live lobsters are greenish-black. But...
by Annie Evankow | Jan 29, 2016 | News Briefs
Have you made your New Year’s resolution? Ocean Genome Legacy’s resolution is to double down our preservation of DNA from endangered species like the Guadalupe fur seal. Now, our goal is to double our marine mammal holdings over the next five years, and we need your...
by Annie Evankow | Jan 14, 2016 | News Briefs
Ocean Genome Legacy rang in the New Year with a very special delivery of fresh fish! OGL is partnering with two agencies to build our collections of local fisheries species: the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
by Annie Evankow | Dec 29, 2015 | News Briefs
Every day we hear news about our oceans, some exciting and some disturbing, but all of these stories lead us to one urgent question: Who will watch over tomorrow’s oceans? On December 1, Ocean Genome Legacy hosted a group of eager students from the Boston University...
