Slip into a smoking jacket, pour yourself a glass of bourbon, light a cigar, and enjoy this post on 10 Ocean Species Every Man Should Love. One of the rarest engines you can find in an early 70’s Dodge Charger is the 426 cubic inch Hemi V8. The 426’s asking price in 1970 was over . . . → Read More: 10 Ocean Species Every Man Should Love: Part 1
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By Dr. M, on  February 21st, 2012  11 comments  Biodiversity, Critters  Blanket Octopus, bourbon, Charger, cigars, Clint Eastwood, Dodge, Hemi, Josey Wales, Lemmy, manly, masculine, Men Men Men, Motorhead, narwhal, Pistols, Portugese Man-O-Ware, Shrimp, smoking, zooids By Dr. M, on February 12th, 2012 One comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Giant Isopod Alicella gigantea, Amphipod, body size, deep sea, Edouard Chevreux, French, Gigantism, supergiant, Trench In 1899 a French zoologist named Edouard Chevreux with an inordinate fondness for crustaceans officially described two crustaceans from the deepest parts of the ocean. Over 100 hundred years later, scientists have collected less than two dozen specimens of this enigmatic shellfish, shocking given that is largest species of amphipod ever known. Within Crustacean . . . → Read More: The Large But Enigmatic Supergiant
By para_sight, on February 11th, 2012 20 comments Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Critters, Fish, Megavertebrate, Opinion, Scientist! bucket list There are so many amazing aquatic species out there, it’s practically impossible for any one person to see them all, even if they dedicated their entire life to marine biology research. To that end, I reckon every good marine bio enthusiast needs a Bucket List of species to strive to see before they die. I’m . . . → Read More: What’s your marine biology Bucket List?
By para_sight, on January 31st, 2012 5 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Paleobiology, Ramblings ammonite, brachiopod, eocrinoid, fossil, Trilobite I celebrated another lap around the sun this weekend, and in honour of that my friend Betty, who lives in Arizona, sent me a rather awesome gift. It wasn’t elegantly wrapped; in fact, its contents were variously contained in a decidedly pedestrian mix of old bubble wrap, styrofoam noodles and plastic bags from Target AND . . . → Read More: Extinct life is like a box of chocolates
By Dr. M, on January 23rd, 2012 15 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Critters lies, Lion Mane's Jellyfish, photoshopped, size extreme The above photo is making the rounds (see here and follow the link trail). In it the a scuba diver is next to Lion’s Mane Jellyfish. But I’m calling bullshit on this photo. Lion’s Maine Jellyfish are indeed big. The world record had a bell diameter of 7 and half feet (2.29m) and 120 ft . . . → Read More: Super Jellyfish?!
By para_sight, on January 20th, 2012 5 comments Biodiversity, Critters Georgia Aquarium, HBOI, reefs, sponge reefs, sponges, submersibles The other deeplings (except RickMac) are at the fantastic Science Online conference this week, meeting with other scientist communicators and hatching various plots for DSN’s ascendancy to world dominance using, I suspect, some combination of Ferragarmos, rum and giant squid tentacles. So, I guess you’re stuck with me! To wit: I made this bit of . . . → Read More: A glass more than half full of awesome
By Miriam Goldstein, on January 17th, 2012 One comment Critters, Mating & Reproduction apophallation, banana slug, Mollusc, sex This is a repost from my former blog The Oyster’s Garter and was originally published on March 24, 2008. I’m re-posting in honor of Kate Clancy‘s & Scicurious‘ Sex, gender and controversy: writing to educate, writing to titillate session at Science Online 2012, since this is one of the silliest bits of sex-related writing I’ve ever . . . → Read More: Perverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest!
By Dr. M, on December 29th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Critters, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls scaly-foot snail, yeti crab A Yeti crab found living at the Dragon Vent in the south-west Indian Ocean Photograph from David Shale On December 15th, I mentioned the exciting news from Jon Copley of the discovery of potentially new species of Yeti Crab. The Guardian has a photo gallery of the some of the creatures from the Dragon Vent including the . . . → Read More: Another New Yeti Crab! Pt II
By Dr. M, on December 6th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Microbes, New Research, New Species, Open Access, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Uncategorized Hydrothermal Vent, kiwa, Kiwa hirsuta, Kiwa puravida, yeti crab Back in 2005, three researchers described and named a very unusual crab from a hydrothermal vent in the Indian Ocean (paper here). The scientists christened this crustacean Kiwa hirsuta from the name of the goddess of shellfish in Polynesian mythology and the Latin hirsutus meaning hairy. The later specifically referring some very hairy claws indeed. Thus . . . → Read More: Yeti Crab Roundup
By para_sight, on October 5th, 2011 5 comments Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Zooplankton copepod, Microscopy Check this out: That right there is one gorgeous copepod, one of the bigger and more important groups of planktonic crustaceans. It looks huge but is actually tiny; probably 1-2mm. This is what they normally look like on a light microscope: You can see how much richer and more detailed the top image is (although . . . → Read More: Copepod awesomesauce
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