Love this video about angler fish. Just the right amount of laughter and science this new ear needs! Of course our favorite at DSN is the Black Devil or Humpback Anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, Class Actinopterygii, Order Lophiiformes, Family Melanocetidae) the vertebrate poster child for deep-sea science. And what’s not to love? The size of a . . . → Read More: True Facts and a Haiku About the Angler Fish
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By Dr. M, on  January 1st, 2013  3 comments  Adaptations, Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies  angler fish, Haiku By Dr. M, on December 18th, 2012 4 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Fish beetle, deep sea, Diet, fish, food limitation, insect, New Zealand, weevil #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Jock Stewart Silverside Dark Ghost Shark In January 2004, Mathew Jones was processing the bycatch from New Zealand lobster stock assessment. Six fish . . . → Read More: The unusual diet of deep-sea fish
By para_sight, on November 15th, 2012 One comment Fish, New Research, Open Access, Organisms biochemistry, DART MS, Georgia Aquarium, homarine, metabolomics, NMR, whale sharks My very first post at Deep Sea News was a tongue in cheek look at how much we don’t know about the largest of all 28,000-ish species of fishes, the whale shark, Rhincodon typus. Since 2006 I’ve been part of a group that is trying to help fix the surprising lack of information on this . . . → Read More: A first look at the biochemistry of whale sharks
By para_sight, on October 31st, 2012 19 comments Adaptations, Evolution, Fish, Organisms, Weird abyssal, anglerfish, deep sea fishes, fear, fishes, halloween, loosejaw, marine biology, phobia, spiders, Viperfish I was going to do a “demons of the deep” post for Halloween but as I was considering which animals to include I had to stop and ask myself what this was really all about and it took me in a slightly different direction, viz: Consider the viper fish with its capacious maw and manifold . . . → Read More: Is this fish evil?
By Dr. M, on October 12th, 2012 87 comments Fish, Organisms big eye, Eye, eyeball, mystery eye, Swordfish No doubt you have seen the lonely big eye in the sea story by now. A giant eyeball washed ashore on a Florida beach and then the internet went crazy. So what is it? I emailed Sönke Johnsen a Professor of Biology and colleague of mine at Duke University. Sönke is an expert on everything . . . → Read More: Solved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?
By para_sight, on September 6th, 2012 9 comments Cephalopods, Expeditions, Fish, Life At Sea, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Seamount fish, Michelle Staudinger, New England, Octopus, seamounts, squid I’m delighted to present this guest post from Dr. Michelle Staudinger, a post-doc at the University of Missouri Columbia and stationed at the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center in Reston Virginia. Michelle was a grad student at Stony Brook University while I was an Assistant Prof there another life ago. Thanks Michelle for . . . → Read More: Guest post: The stunning deep-water biodiversity of the Bear Seamount
Yes, August 30 is officially International Whale Shark Day, so declared after the 2nd WS Symposium in Mexico a few years back. There’s been a lot of news in the whale shark department over the last couple of years, so here’s a link fest that ought to satisfy the spottiest of appetites. Nom Nom, AKA . . . → Read More: Kalloo Kallay, It’s International Whale Shark Day!
By Dr. M, on August 27th, 2012 19 comments Cephalopods, Fish, Giant Isopod, New Species, Organisms bucket list You might remember Al’s post on his Marine Biology 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 . . . → Read More: My Marine Biology Bucket List
By para_sight, on July 22nd, 2012 3 comments Coral, Expeditions, Fish, Life At Sea, New Research, Organisms, Plankton Cancun, Georgia Aquarium, Mexico, scuba, whale sharks, Yucatan Science is about discovery, observation and understanding, but it doesn’t always proceed smoothly and inexorably towards success. Real science, especially RealBiology®, is often messy and complicated, and the real challenge of being a biologist is distilling out of that sloppy chaos some meaningful patterns that might advance the field. I am with a team from . . . → Read More: Notes from the field: Mexico whale shark research 2012
By Archie Teuthis, on July 17th, 2012 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, Fish, Organisms Alaska, Bering sea, DeepWorker, Egg Cases, GreenPeace, John Hocevar, Skate, Waitt Institute, Zemchug Canyon Our colleague John Hocevar is out in the Bering Sea right now studying the seafloor communities there with Greenpeace and the Waitt Institute. John has shared new finds with us before and was kind enough to share a really cool new discovery with DSN readers! Enjoy! ————————————————————————————– A Little Skate Nursery Rhyme Jackie and her . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Nursery Rhymes for Skates
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