London based artist Jonathan Wateridge’s “Crash Series” consist of seven huge (up to 2m x 3m) oil paintings depicting scenes of crashed air planes and ships. Extremely realistic paintings show dramatic contrast of live nature and dead mechanisms. via Crash Series by Jonathan Wateridge | Best Bookmarks. . . . → Read More: Crash Series by Jonathan Wateridge
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By Dr. M, on  July 15th, 2011  4 comments  Biodiversity, Evolution, Geology, Paleobiology, TGIF: Pictures & Movies  Cambrian explosion, Disparity, diversity Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Cambrian Explosion Song
By para_sight, on July 14th, 2011 6 comments Biodiversity, Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Fish, Megavertebrate Discovery Channel, Georgia Aquarium, sharks Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is an immensely popular block of programming that focuses on our toothy buddies, the elasmobranchs. This year Georgia Aquarium will play a central role in the theming for Shark Week, and that’s already started in the form of a new UStream feed of a special camera that’s been added to … . . . → Read More: Get a fish’s eye view of Shark Week
By para_sight, on July 13th, 2011 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, Megavertebrate, New Research Caribbean, Georgia Aquarium, georgia tech, Mexico, mote, Smithsonian, whale shark It’s getting to that time of year again. It’s hot here in Atlanta, and really hot down in Mexico, where, in between the tropical storms and occasional hurricanes, dog days are settling over the Yucatan Peninsula. It’s also the time when whale sharks begin to gather in big numbers off the coast, not far from … . . . → Read More: Spotting the difference between whale sharks
By Dr. M, on July 13th, 2011 4 comments Art, Vessels and Equipment architecture, design, homes, ocean living, Seasteading Institute By now you probably realize that we here at DSN are more than ready to burn our terrestrial dwellings down in favor of living among sea creatures in some oceanic utopia. To our list of potential inhabitable salty structures comes a venture from Peter Thiel. Thiel is founder of PayPal, a Google Engineer, and a … . . . → Read More: Floating Cities
By Dr. M, on July 12th, 2011 One comment Art, Cephalopods! candlestick holder, Cephalopod, Etsy, Octopus, squid, Tentacle Just ordered a set of these for the banquet table at DSN headquarters. . . . → Read More: Tentacle Candlestick Holder
By Dr. M, on July 12th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity anemones, nudibranchs, Predation, revolution, Sea Slugs You may not realize that those unassuming slugs of the oceans, nudibranchs, are voracious predators in hiding. Sponges, corals, hydroids, bryozoans, anemones, barnacles, the Portugese Man-O-War, and even other sea slugs will wind up in the digestive tract of a nudibranch. Not even other nudibranchs, even if they are same species, can escape the … . . . → Read More: Anemones Fight Back Against Their Opressors
If you want the most up to date news on everything ocean, then you should be following us on Twitter! You can find us at @DrCraigMc @KZelnio @OystersGarter @Dr_Bik @RMacPherson @Para_Sight You can follow post from Deep-Sea News at @deepseanews and you can catch all the recent ocean news by following the Deep-Sea New hashtag #DSN. Don’t forget to ‘like’ us on … . . . → Read More: Are You Following Us On Twitter?
By Dr. M, on July 10th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Fish, Weird fish, reef, tool use When I was in college, I had fish in aquarium. I repeatedly tried to train them to retrieve a beer from my dorm fridge, open the bottle with an opener, and hand fin it to me. Sadly after several hours of me miming instructions and elaborate PVC piping spanning between the aquarium, my couch, and … . . . → Read More: Tool Use In Fish
By Dr. M, on July 10th, 2011 Leave a comment Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills conservation, Dumping, fishing, geosequestration, iron fertilization, IUCN, mining, Oil Spill, pollution, tuna Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my fish in oil please. PLoS One published an article by Fodrie and Heck concluding that immediate catastrophic loss of fish was avoided in the Gulf oil spill. They also found … . . . → Read More: Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation News
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