Remember the Hoff Crab? You bet your bippy you do. You can thank Nicolai Roterman for that. Nicolai, a hydrothermal vent biologist and a member of the expedition that found this hairy crab, coined the name Hoff Crab while still on board. To commemorate this very special event Nicolai’s sister watercolored the specimen caught on the SW . . . → Read More: Hoff Crab + Tattoo = Awesomsauce
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By Dr. M, on  May 20th, 2012  2 comments  Art, Biodiversity, New Species, Scientist!  Hoff Crab, Tattoo, yeti crab By Dr. M, on April 27th, 2012 9 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Expeditions, New Research, New Species 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 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 Dr Bik, on April 26th, 2011 6 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Microbes, New Species 454, DNA, Illumina, metagenomics, Microbes, RB Editor's Selection, sequencing If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a bit obsessed. If my life were an SAT analogy, it would be Dr Bik:Sequencing platforms as Teenage Girls:Twilight. My gorgeous Illumina never sleeps (runs 2 weeks straight for a . . . → Read More: Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
By para_sight, on April 5th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Fish, New Research, New Species Amazon, Elasmobranchia, taxonomy Stingrays always look so awesome on x-rays. Look at this beauty in a new New Scientist article about a new Zootaxa article on a new genus of stingrays, Heliotrygon. Beautiful aren’t they? Heliotrygon, a new genus of Amazon freshwater stingray Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Stingrays always look so awesome on x-rays. Look at this beauty in a new New Scientist article about a new Zootaxa article on a new genus of stingrays, Heliotrygon. Beautiful… By para_sight, on April 5th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Critters, New Research, New Species, Uncategorized coral reefs, digenea, parasites, taxonomy Coomera brayi Dove & Cribb 1995 Hi, my name’s Al and I’m a parasitologist (Hi Al!) #AA I’ve just read a most remarkable paper by my PhD advisor, Dr. Tom Cribb (University of Queensland), and his close colleague Dr. Rod Bray (NHM London, ret.). In it, they describe patterns in the history of taxonomic . . . → Read More: Its the end of the worm as we know it
By Dr. M, on February 18th, 2011 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Microbes, New Species, Oil Spills, Uncategorized via Toxic blob drifting in Gulf mystifies scientists | HeraldTribune.com. Just off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdido Key, an underwater mass of dead sea life that appears to be growing as microscopic algae and bacteria get trapped and die has been found by scientists. Early samples indicate the glob is at least 3 . . . → Read More: Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift
By Dr. M, on February 2nd, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Uncategorized Biodiversity, methane, Methane Seep, mud volcano via “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea There’s a new island in the azure waters off Pakistan, but you might want to hold off on vacation planning: The tiny dot is a mud volcano that will likely disappear before it sees 1,001 Arabian nights. Pakistani fishers reported the new mud volcano in the Arabian . . . → Read More: “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 17th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Evolution, New Research, New Species Best of Zelnio, bone, MBARI, Nutrition, Osedax, Radula, Rubyspira, Trophic Ecology, Whale Fall You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way back in the 2000s. Now though, all the rage is the BONE SNAIL! Yeah, that’s right the BoNe SnAiL!!! Its cooler than cool, just trust me. The Bone Snail is . . . → Read More: Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking Over
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