I was going to do a “demons of the deep” post for Halloween but as I was considering which animals to include I had to stop and ask myself what this was really all about and it took me in a slightly different direction, viz: Consider the viper fish with its capacious maw and manifold . . . → Read More: Is this fish evil?
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By para_sight, on  October 31st, 2012  19 comments  Adaptations, Evolution, Fish, Organisms, Weird  abyssal, anglerfish, deep sea fishes, fear, fishes, halloween, loosejaw, marine biology, phobia, spiders, Viperfish Sound in the ocean does not behave like sound in the air. This is also what makes sound in the ocean so awesome. Sound in water is like the cool funky uncle of the sound family. It travels ridiculously fast, nearly 5 times faster in water than in air. It also does not travel in . . . → Read More: Bending sound, the weird path of sound in the ocean
By para_sight, on September 7th, 2012 One comment New Research, New Species, Organisms, Weird jellyfish, Scyphozoa This Friday comes the news that a new jellyfish has been named “City of gonads”. You can’t make this stuff up, except that somebody just did! I guess you have have really big, um, er, what’s the word? to do that… The City of Gonads jellyfish, click to go to the full story . . . → Read More: TGIF – City of Gonads
By Miriam Goldstein, on May 5th, 2012 8 comments Best, Conservation & Environment, Natural Disaster, Weird Fukushima, Honshu tsunami, spam, tsunami Please enjoy this delightful piece of comment spam that we received at here at DSN. I’ve redacted the contact information but left the rest as is. Who wouldn’t trust Savy Pappy with a Fukushima reactor? I’m sending them $100,000 right now! American People, Global Community, Ladies and Gentlemen We are the Freedom consultants firm. [address]. . . . → Read More: Amazing Fukushima-related spam
By Dr Bik, on April 30th, 2012 4 comments Cephalopods, Weird Cephalopod, Octopus, Photography, Seagull I just HAD to post this on DSN in case y’all missed Miriam’s links on Twitter. If you’re still on the fence in the vertebrates vs. invertebrates debate, this story will surely convince you of the winner (invertebrates, of course). The folks over at BirdFellow witnessed an incredible sight: an octopus EATING a seagull in . . . → Read More: Puny Seagull vs. Badass Octopus
By para_sight, on February 29th, 2012 4 comments Cephalopods, Fish, Giant Isopod, Organisms, Weird dolphins, flying squid, manta, minke whale, mobula, sailfish, sperm whale, tarpon, tuna, whales Please enjoy this anthology of leaping marine animals. The opportunity for this post only comes up once every four years, so it’s no wonder they’re celebrating! Mobula sp. – devil ray Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus Flying squid, Todarodes pacificus Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares Sailfish, Istiophorus sp. Manta ray, Manta sp. (Most “manta jumps” on google . . . → Read More: In honour of Leap Day
Via Reddit: By para_sight, on December 5th, 2011 16 comments Cephalopods, Fish, Mining, Vessels and Equipment, Weird oil rigs, ROV, sharks, whales The following images came across my desk last week humorously labeled “There’s something wrong with the ROV”. The startling shots show what appears to be an unfortunate mako shark that has become entangled in the mechanics of a large ROV [remotely operated vehicle] #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; . . . → Read More: Animals Vs. Equipment
By para_sight, on November 17th, 2011 22 comments Fish, New Research, Organisms, Weird hawaii, shark, Shark Attack, swimming Field Museum scientist Josh Drew recently brought to my attention a new and unusual paper describing a world first. The manuscript by Randy Honebrink and co-authors in Pacific Science describes the first documented attack on a living human by a cookiecutter shark, Isistius sp., and it’s quite an eye-opener. Cookiecutters are relatively tiny sharks . . . → Read More: The real cookie monster
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