The newest update is that British Petroleum’s ‘top kill’ (animation, description from engineers) and ‘junk shot’ will join ‘top hat’ in the list of failed attempts. Early news of the ‘top kill” teetered for a few days between progress, stopping of the leak, progress, hesitation, and failure with no one really knowing the answer until … . . . → Read More: Oil Spill Update: May 31st 2010
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By Dr. M, on  May 31st, 2010  11 comments  Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Geology, Industry & Government, Oil Spills, Uncategorized  British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Deepwater Horizon, drill, Gulf of Mexico, offshore drilling, oil slick, Oil Spill By Kevin Zelnio, on May 27th, 2010 2 comments Art, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Vessels and Equipment Biomimetics, Canoe, Hydrothermal Vent, Project S, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, Southern Fried Science Southern Fried Scientist has finally posted our latest creation. Those follow @sfriedscientist and @kzelnio on twitter may have heard us mention Project S. It is a biomimetic concept canoe of the highly charismatic deep-sea shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. I’ve previously blogged about the fascinating eye of Rimicaris for those interested in learning more. Andrew and … . . . → Read More: Behold the Rimicanoe!
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 27th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, New Research Best of Zelnio, Biocalcification, carbonate, Carbonic Anhydrase, Hexactinellida, LCAM, Monorhaphis chuni, Palaeogenomics, Porifera, Silica, spicule, sponge The deep-sea sponge Monorhaphis chuni (Hexactinellida) has the world’s largest known biosilica structure! A silicate spicule that can grow up to 3 meters long. That’s at least a meter longer than you! I don’t really know how to construe to enormity of such a structure. I could make it so you … . . . → Read More: Huge Silicate Sponge Spicules and the Evolution of Calcification
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 26th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Scientist! jelly, jellyfish, KQED, PBS A fantastic KQED QUEST video on jellies starring Chad Widmer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Steve Haddock of MBARI! QUEST on KQED Public Media. . . . → Read More: “Jellies Are As Elegant As They Are Squishy”
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 26th, 2010 9 comments Industry & Government, Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, National Geographic, Oil Spill, US Coast Guard Gulf Oil Spill airs on NGC Thursday, May 27 at 10PM ET/PT National Geographic Channel is airing what promises to be an epic recount of the explosion and rescue of the 126 oil rig workers by the US Coast Guard. It’s one of America’s biggest environmental disasters and the largest oil slick … . . . → Read More: “Like Looking into the Face of the Devil” – National Geographic Oil Spill Special
Each week Razib Khan, Dave Munger and I tackle a paper that was recently blogged about on ResearchBlogging.org. This week, Razib picked out a paper published in Science about demonstrating how cooperation may have become beneficial in early human societies. Boyd, R., Gintis, H., & Bowles, S. (2010). Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains … . . . → Read More: ResearchBlogCast #7: New Model of Cooperation
By Dr. M, on May 24th, 2010 10 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Oil Spills British Petroleum, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Oil Spill Another few days and another few million gallons. Oil seeps 12 miles into Louisiana marshes and pelicans are coated in crude. The U.S. officially declares a fisheries disaster in Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 20% of fisheries in the area because of the spill impacting the $2.4 billion industry in the Gulf states The BP “plan” for reacting … . . . → Read More: Oil Spill Update: May 24, 2010
Brilliant piece from The Oatmeal. Click to enter the the life of the male anglerfish. . . . → Read More: How the Male Anglerfish Got Totally Screwed
By Dr. M, on May 24th, 2010 One comment Biodiversity, Fish, New Species bombardier worm, Carnivorous Sponge, Chondrocladia, deep sea, Polychaete, spicule, sponge, Top 10 Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year. Of the top 10 for 2009 are two deep-sea species. The Financial Times also list there top five deep-sea species. Very cool even if all of them are vertebrates. Bombardier Worm, Swima bombiviridis Carnivorous Sponge, Chondrocladia (Meliiderma) … . . . → Read More: The Best New Species of 2009
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 24th, 2010 5 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Colossal Squid, Etmopterus spinax, Heliocidaris erythrogramma, Lantern Shark, Predation, Sea Urchin, Selection, sperm, The Tide Pool An occasional series where I briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- How could not think of the colossal squid as a voracious hunter of the deep?? Contrary to popular opinion Rosa and Seibel argue that “… the colossal squid is not a voracious predator capable of high-speed predator–prey interactions. It … . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Slow Colossal Squid?, Lantern Shark’s Light Switch, Longer is Faster (in Sperm)
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