It was a long, hard, and tumultuous battle, but the clash of the titans that began here at The Intersection--that will go down in science blogging history as the Great Marine Invertebrate Wars--has ended. And yes readers, our own fighting echinoderm has emerged victorious!
The final showdown happened this weekend when Jason of Cephalopodcast brought [pins of] the inverts to ScienceOnline'09 so attendees could take sides by declaring allegiances. And those poor squiggly cephalopods didn't stand a chance... It was literally a blowout as echinoderm fever took the blogging conference by storm!
Bora, Vanessa, and I led the charge and even Kevin's Saturday sea shanty couldn't hope to save the sinking molluscs. And with that, another war is over...
So congratulations to echinoderms everywhere--especially, my very favorite, the ever-charismatic sea cucumber. Long live Holothuroidea!
