Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsCategory: New Species
Coral-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 starsThe Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lug
I first discovered Dr. Pat Krug when he gave a talk at Scripps and revealed that he had named a new species of sea slug…
View More The Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lugTide 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 AnimalsSo big I could pet it
While sorting through my deep-sea Gulf of Mexico samples this morning I found this freakin’ huge nematode. Isn’t it awesome???? Usually its only the parasitic…
View More So big I could pet itRevealing life at the Ridge
Some amazing new pictures were released this week from the final cruise of the ECOMAR program, focused around the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone on the Mid-Atlantic…
View More Revealing life at the RidgeThe Best New Species of 2009
Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year. Of the top…
View More The Best New Species of 2009The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
KAZ – A new occasional series modeled from Ed Yong’s Pocket Science where I will briefly report a few cool studies and tell you why…
View More The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old OstracodsNew Bathyacmaea
This is a new species of Bathyacmaea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Patellogastropoda, Acmaeidae) currently under description by a japanese colleague. I have found hundreds of these individuals…
View More New BathyacmaeaReconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All Life
What is the origin story of deep-sea organisms? For decades, we thought shallow coastal waters were the cradle of marine life repeatedly pumping species into…
View More Reconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All Life