This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to…
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Tapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea Mining
Nautilus Mining is the virus that will not go away. You have to admire their persistence if it did not come with destruction of deep-sea ecosystems. Nautilus…
View More Tapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea MiningCoral-devouring sea stars
A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in…
View More Coral-devouring sea starsDeep-sea coral reefs discovered in Mediterranean
The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi…
View More Deep-sea coral reefs discovered in MediterraneanNew New Hydrothermal Vent in Atlantic Discovered
Scientists from the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen on board the German research vessel…
View More New New Hydrothermal Vent in Atlantic DiscoveredTide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
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…
View More Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea AnimalsThat’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000
That’s right, new work suggests BP’s estimates of oil flowing from the broken well were an order of magnitude off. With these revised estimates, the BP…
View More That’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!
The basic energy molecule for life is ATP, adenosine triphosphate. It fuels all those cellular reactions that life needs. To produce one mol of ATP…
View More Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
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,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878Methane Bubbles
Video (link) from the remote operated vehicle Jason of methane-rich bubbles streaming from the seafloor on an active seep area on Hydrate Ridge just offshore of…
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