With just reason Humboldt or Jumbo Squid are called Diablo Rojo. The skin of Dosidicus gigas is blood red but can change to bone white. These massive squids, the third largest of all squids, forage for prey in the dark of night, which they take down with two long tentacles covered in teeth. If the . . . → Read More: Coordinated Hunting in Red Devils
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By Dr. M, on  June 5th, 2012  3 comments  Adaptations, Cephalopods, Ecology, New Research, Organisms  Behavior, feeding, Humboldt Squid, Predation, Schooling, squid, zombies By Dr. M, on May 10th, 2012 2 comments Adaptations, Evolution, Organisms, Uncategorized brittle start, echinoderm, gait, symetry, tube feet, walking Unlike their Echinoderm brethren, brittle stars do not move along on tube feet that can propel them in any direction. Instead, brittle stars ‘walk’. This mode of movement by brittle stars is even more astonishing when it is considered that brittle stars, like all echinoderms, are not bilaterally symmetrical, i.e mirror imaged halves. All . . . → Read More: These Arms Were Made For Walking
By Dr. M, on April 27th, 2012 9 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Expeditions, New Research, New Species, Organisms endosymbiotic bacteria, lumber, Squat Lobster, timber, tree, Wood, woodfall, Xylophaga, Xyloplax Act 1: Wood Falling on Water At two miles below the ocean’s surface, I see wooden carcasses, once buoyant, lying listlessly on the abyssal seafloor. They range from small fragments to 2000+ pound behemoths. Ligneous cadavers litter the seafloor, a last resting place for visitors from a faraway and drier place, becoming rare as . . . → Read More: A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep: A Narrative in Five Acts
By para_sight, on April 5th, 2012 2 comments Adaptations, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms algae, competition, coral reefs, georgia tech, seaweed Battle lines are drawn and chemical warfare commences between alga (left) and coral (right). Img: Jennifer Smith I was lucky enough to attend an all-day workshop today, just down the road at Georgia Tech, where Prof. Mark Hay organised the Teasley Symposium on the interactions between corals and seaweeds on reefs. Like many, I was . . . → Read More: Turf wars
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 30th, 2012 Leave a comment Adaptations, Pictures and Movies Creature Cast, Ctenophore, Photonics CreatureCast – Ctenophore Photonics from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. By para_sight, on March 28th, 2012 3 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion & Editorial Adaptations, Challenger Deep, Deep Challenger, Deep Sea Challenge, Marianas, pressure Edit – In the original article I said that the sphere of the Deep Challenger was made of titanium. In fact, it’s made of steel. My bad! In trying to explain to friends, colleagues and Twitter followers during recent days what James Cameron may have seen out that softball-sized window of the Deep Challenger submersible . . . → Read More: Cool as a sea cucumber: life (and death) at extraordinary deep sea pressures
By para_sight, on March 23rd, 2012 Leave a comment Adaptations, Coral, Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Uncategorized bleaching, blennies, Coral, coral bleaching, coral reefs, feeding Exallias brevis male My good colleague Dr. Bruce Carlson just uploaded a very nice short YouTube video about a reef blenny called Exallias brevis. Exallias is fairly special (but by no means unique) not just because it’s quite the looker, but because it is a coral predator. Like many blennies it has a mouth that . . . → Read More: TGIF – Exallias brevis, a very special fish
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 20th, 2012 One comment Adaptations, Evolution, Paleobiology Echinodermata, echinoderms, Evolutionary History, fossil, Madreporite, Phylogeny, Radial Symmetry, Water Vascular System, Xyloplax Graphic used with permission. Daniel D. Brown, LaughingMantis.com. Echinoderms are one of the most highly derived groups of animals with many species as significant components of several marine communities. They’re classified by three fundamental shared characteristics: 1) pentaradial symmetry, 2) skeleton made of three-dimensional calcitic elements, and 3) the presence of a water . . . → Read More: Veins of Water: The Evolution of the Echinoderm Water-Vascular System
By Dr. M, on March 9th, 2012 7 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms, Paleobiology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls We as humans have three fundamental questions. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? The answers to these thrust at the core of our humanity and uniqueness. Through science we seek out replies to these inquiries. The Drake Equation In 1960 the National Academy of Sciences asked . . . → Read More: What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
By Dr. M, on March 1st, 2012 6 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms Cephalopod, chest hair, Cigar, cigarette, Colossal Squid, cone snail, David Hasselhoff, does anybody actually read these tags, Hoff Crab, James Bond, manly, penus, Richard Dalton, Sean Connery, Tiger Shark, Vampire Squid, venom, Whiskey, yeti crab After your comments on the last post and deliberation by a crack team of judges that included myself and some fellas named Evan, Jack, and Jim here are the top 5 manliest species. Adam Etzion wrote this about the Vampire Squid in the comments of the last post Sit back, swish that bourbon around and . . . → Read More: 10 Ocean Species Every Man Should Love: Part 2
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