Cool as a sea cucumber: life (and death) at extraordinary deep sea pressures
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By , on March 28th, 2012 3 comments   Adaptations, Ecology, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion & Editorial   , , , , ,  

Edit – In the original article I said that the sphere of the Deep Challenger was made of titanium. In fact, it’s made of steel. My bad! In trying to explain to friends, colleagues and Twitter followers during recent days what James Cameron may have seen out that softball-sized window of the Deep Challenger submersible . . . → Read More: Cool as a sea cucumber: life (and death) at extraordinary deep sea pressures

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A reminder that…
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By , on October 8th, 2009 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Organisms, Pictures and Movies   , , , ,  

…removal of waste represents over 550 million years of evolutionary adaptation to solve one of life’s most basic problems.

OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
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By , on June 12th, 2009 2 comments   Adaptations, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, Organisms   , , , , , , , , ,  

It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston and Guinness. Your only source of food, what little you get, is far from fresh and may have passed through the rectum of more than one animal. If you are . . . → Read More: OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair

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Gigantothermy: Size Matters
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By , on April 23rd, 2009 2 comments   Adaptations, Organisms   , , , , , ,  

by Bryan Wallace for Deep Sea News When you think of cold marine environments, you probably think of blubber-wrapped seals, whales, and walruses, big, furry bears, or a huddled mass of penguins. What do those animals have in common? They are endotherms, their body temperature maintenance depends on consistently high levels of heat generated (and . . . → Read More: Gigantothermy: Size Matters

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Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time
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By , on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Carnivals & Link Love, Fish, New Research, New Species, Organisms   , , , , ,  

No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong has tackled one of them and probably did a better write up than what I intended. Ed you master of the written word o’ how I long to be you. . . . → Read More: Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time

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