Stop motion & Music by Ryan Smith. Rendered by Chris Mcdonald. Disturbing, but the stop motion and haunting music.. can’t keep my eyes away… Bonus…
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Deep Water Corals Invade!
Sometimes research comes about that really makes my whole week. This time it is a little diddy from Lindner et al. in PLoS. We could…
View More Deep Water Corals Invade!Squid Messenger Bag!
I know what to get Craig for his birthday! From Gama-Go: “This bag is built to last, constructed from a tough, water-resistant cordura nylon shell…
View More Squid Messenger Bag!Environment Shapes Barnacle Penis
Spring is in the air! Its the time of year to release your gametes into the water and make baby barnacles. But wait a second,…
View More Environment Shapes Barnacle PenisThe Earliest Known Metazoans
In 1964 S.B. Mirsa, a graduate student at Memorial University in Newfoundland, discovered a group of well-preserved fossilized soft-body animals. Subsequent research revealed the fauna…
View More The Earliest Known MetazoansPollution in deep-sea squid
You would think that deep-sea squid could hide from human pollution like dichlorodiphenyl- trichloroethane (DDT) and tributyltin (TBT), but these and other persistent organic pollutants…
View More Pollution in deep-sea squidMore Types of Bacteria In Tropical Waters
Beware when you go on tropical holiday. Species richness of bacteria is higher in those waters. For many organisms on land (birds, mammals, snails, plants,…
View More More Types of Bacteria In Tropical WatersEpsilonproteobacteria Everywhere
“Epsilonproteobacteria, it turns out, are one of the predominant groups of extremophiles in marine systems. In one environmental DNA sample taken from a hydrothermal vent,…
View More Epsilonproteobacteria EverywhereFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Little People Attacked by Giant Squid
I am a big fan of Slinkachu out of London. The art is best described by the subtitle of the project itself “A Tiny Street…
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