We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago and much work on their reproduction, evolution and ecology has yielded incredible insights into a unique and bizarre way of life! Early on, Osedax was only found on whale bones . . . → Read More: Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  April 17th, 2011  7 comments  Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  Adrian Glover, Best of Zelnio, bone, Bone Worm, Colonization, Craig Smith, deep sea, dwarf male, fish, Greg Rouse, Habitat, Life History, lipid, Monterey Canyon, Nutrition, Osedax, Robert Vrijenhoek, Whale Fall By Dr. M, on February 25th, 2011 2 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Plankton Make sure you go read Hannah’s post on krill sex in the deep sea. Find out why should care about where Antarctic krill get it on. Also take note of the brilliant web animation of krill sex also released by the authors. As Kevin noted, “Best supplemental evah!” By RickMac, on February 1st, 2011 2 comments Coral, Ecology, Evolution, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Open Access, Organisms, Scientist! conservation, coral reefs, Genetics Acropora millepora aquarium colony grown from fragment, www.reefclub.or.kr One of the defining decision points of life: Settle-down and make a living close to the familiar particulars of your birthplace or venture out to get a fresh start and be exposed to additional opportunities and experiences that “somewhere else” could open up. In addition to vexing . . . → Read More: Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 3rd, 2010 3 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Reviews Best of Zelnio, Gecarcoidea natalis, Great Migrations, migration, National Geographic, Red Crab, Rockhopper Penguin Christmas Island red crab migration. Each year they travel from the forest to the seashore to breed. National Geographic embarked on an ambitious two and a half year film project, covering over 420,000 square miles, and telling the story of animal movements for a wide variety of animals. There are several awestruck moments. One of . . . → Read More: Great Migrations
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 5 comments Adaptations, Biology, Evolution, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Paleobiology adaptation, Cretaceous, deep sea, evolution, hermaphrodite, Jurassic, lizardfish 145 million years ago, in the Cretaceous, the air was warm and the seas were high and rum flowed freely. On land, mammals were oppressed under dinosaur Republican rule. Massive reptiles and ammonites, long since extinct, dominated the oceans. Under the reign of these giants, the lizardfishes were mere fledglings. Today, the 256 known lizardfishes . . . → Read More: Of eyes and sex in lizardfishes
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 8th, 2010 2 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Best of Zelnio, Bio-foam, Dispersal, larvae, larval dispersal, Marine Reserve Design, Pyura praeputialis, sea squirt, SLOSS, Spawning, Surfactants, Tidal Channels, Tunicate Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography and local oceanography that may have consequences in the debates surrounding marine reserve design. Castillo and colleagues examined the spawning behavior of intertidal tunicates (Pyura praeputialis, an invasive) from the . . . → Read More: Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex
By Dr. M, on September 23rd, 2010 2 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls food, lobster, magnetic field, Methane Seep, mollusk, navigation, nematode, Parasite, sex, The Tide Pool, turtle An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the potential exchanges of species in cold methane seeps across the Atlantic Ocean from the Congo to the Gulf of Mexico. By culling data from the literature, the authors demonstrate, despite . . . → Read More: Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 23rd, 2010 5 comments Mating & Reproduction Australia, Sea Slug, sex [EDIT: Except the slugs are in New Zealand, not Australia - brain fail! Sorry to all Down Under. See comments below for an invigorating discussion of who is more toxic.] The very fate of Australia hinges on the shenanigans of slutty sea slugs. Ok, maybe not the fate of an entire continent, but certainly the . . . → Read More: Molluscan sexcapades cause unrest in Australia
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 15th, 2010 7 comments Conservation & Environment, Mating & Reproduction Hermaphrodites, Hermaphroditism, RB Editor's Selection, Snail, TBT, tributyltin At my former blog, The Oyster’s Garter, I occasionally wrote an advice column inspired by Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation and Dan Savage. I think it is time to get back to this glorious tradition. Dear Deep Sea News, I never thought I’d be writing to you – not least because it’s really . . . → Read More: Female snails in Australia are just happy to see you
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 8th, 2010 9 comments Adaptations, Evolution, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Anders Warén, Best of Zelnio, Brooding, Chemoautotrophy, Hydrothermal Vents, ifremeria, larvae What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of, and in vain! – Keep, keep thy riches, melancholy sea! We ask not such from thee Felicia Hemans, 1827 The Treasures of the Deep Just when you think you have . . . → Read More: First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
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