#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. The fish’s tubular eyes . . . → Read More: Scientists Solve The Mystery Of Why This Fish Is So Freakin’ Crazy
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By Dr. M, on  February 23rd, 2009  24 comments  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish, New Research, Scientist!  Aquarium, Barrel-eye, deep sea, Eye, fish, MBARI, ROV, video By Kevin Zelnio, on February 23rd, 2009 8 comments Biodiversity, Conferences, Fish, New Research ASLO, Baited Camera Traps, Best of Zelnio, Black Swallower, Chiasmodon niger, Conference, Crustacea, Drazen, fish, Oxygen Minimum Zone, Scavenger, Snake Mackerel, Yeh, Zoarcidae I got the dreaded pop-up of doom as my macbook told me it could not install the latest update because I out of space. So I decided to poke around, see where I could save space and delete files. Sitting on my desktop for a couple years was an aptly titled folder, “Photos to Sort”, . . . → Read More: Big Gulpers In The Deep
By Dr. M, on February 22nd, 2009 12 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Critters Annelida, Barnacle, Cephalopod, Coral, deep sea, Echinodermata, feeding, fish, Giant Isopod, girlfriends, Invertebrate, Octopus, puppies, rotifer, salmon, sex, shark, sponge, video In no certain order… 10. Those barnacles just ain’t feeding! This is red hot barnacle copulation! Turn the lights down low, everything’s goin’ to be just right… 9. Humboldt Squid are vicious, blood thirsty demons ready to rip the flesh off any living creature. Of course I tend toward exaggeration 8. Beautiful? Definitely! Slow? Stunningly! . . . → Read More: The 10 Greatest Web Videos of Marine Invertebrates
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 22nd, 2009 6 comments Fish, Megavertebrate Chondrichthys, National Geographic, shark, Spawning, whale shark While the announcer’s voice usually annoys me, I found this clip to be particularly interesting. They actually get into a nice little sidebar about the natural history of the fish that produce the eggs whale sharks like to eat. One thing I’ve always wanted to know is, why do they have the pattern of of . . . → Read More: Whale Shark Wine and Dine
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 22nd, 2009 Leave a comment Carnivals & Link Love Circus of the Spineless, Invertebrate Diaries The next edition of the Circus of the Spineless will be held at the Invertebrate Diaries. Send in your submissions from this month to edwbaker at googlemail dot com by Midnight GMT Saturday, February 28th. The Circus is scheduled for Monday, March 2. Looking forward to all the de-boned articles! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}The next edition of the Circus of the Spineless will be held at the Invertebrate Diaries. Send in your submissions from this month to edwbaker at googlemail dot com by… By Kevin Zelnio, on February 21st, 2009 5 comments Expeditions, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Antarctica, Expedition, Volcano A recent expedition to the antarctic undersea volcanoes has recently returned. They are sharing some of their highlights in a video. The cruise looked both amazing and brutal at times! Watching it makes me twitch though. I’m longing to be out on the open sea once more. Thanks for Dr. Copley and the rest of . . . → Read More: Underwater Volcanoes in Antarctica
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 21st, 2009 2 comments Archaeology, History, and Art Danton, pipeline, shipwreck BBC News reports: A French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine has been discovered in remarkable condition on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. The Danton, with many of its gun turrets still intact, is sitting upright in over 1,000m of water. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}BBC News reports: A French battleship sunk . . . → Read More: Sunken French battleship discovered
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 20th, 2009 10 comments Conservation & Environment, Plastic ed norton, fight club, Plastic In my ever growing list of human induced threats to sea animals, plastic bags rank number two after commercial fisheries. Fishing harms animals directly by ensnaring them, and indirectly by competing for their food. Imagine grocery shopping behind a bulldozer. Ship strikes are number three on my list, killing whales and sea turtles as . . . → Read More: TGIF videos: Plastic Fight Club
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 20th, 2009 12 comments Ramblings Beard, Biochemical Soul, Darwin, Southern Fried Science We marked the end of the first week of our Great Darwin Beard Challenge. Below are the contestants (minus whysharksmatters from Southern Fried Science who hasn’t submitted his photo yet) at T=1. If you are participating leave a link in the comments below. Top Right – sexiest deep sea biologist, Kevin Z; Top Left – . . . → Read More: The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 1
By Dr. M, on February 19th, 2009 Leave a comment Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Cephalopods! Art, Octopus, subs …visit Tiny Art Director. I spend the morning there reading over Bill Zeman’s posts. Bill is an artist, who receives art direction and guidance from his now 4 year old daughter. The Brief: an octopus The Critique: I don't like the scary green fish because he's bad. I want to help you. I want to . . . → Read More: If You Need to Kill Some Time Laughing…
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