Yesterday the DSN crew first saw the video above. What is this large floating sheet of goo? Is it alive? Was it once alive? The two leading contenders seems to be that it is A) an old whale placenta or B) a rare and enigmatic deep-sea jellyfish. And the answer is…. B) A) So . . . → Read More: Solving the Mystery of the Placental Jellyfish
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By Dr. M, on  May 9th, 2012  53 comments  Organisms, Plankton  Cnidaria, deep sea, Deepstaria enigmatica, gonad, jellyfish, pelagic, ROV By Dr. M, on July 8th, 2011 2 comments Adaptations, Organisms, Pictures and Movies Cnidaria, feeding, pneumatophore, Polyp, Portugese Man-O-Ware, Predation, zooids Despite being stung by one of them on a Gulf beach as a kid, Portugese Man-O-War’s are still one of my favorite organisms. Hat tip to @echinoblog for the link to this video of a Portugese Man-O-War capturing a fish. Remember this species is colonial and made of four different polyps or zooids, working . . . → Read More: TGIF: Portuguese Man-O-War Feeding
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 27th, 2010 One comment Evolution, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Paleobiology Anatomy, Anemone, Anthozoa, Best of Zelnio, Cambrian, China, Cnidaria, Eolympia pediculata, fossil, Hexacorallia, Mesentery, Microfossil, plos one 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 a recent PLoS One article, Han and colleagues report the findings of a new squishy sea anemone from the Lower Cambrian. The new find lends support to genetic data . . . → Read More: New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 24th, 2010 One comment Fish, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Paleobiology 6-Gill Shark, Anatomy, Bathykorus bouilloni, Cnidaria, fossil, Hydrozoa, jelly, jellyfish, Ostracod, Raskoff, shark, The Tide Pool 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 I think they are cool! ———————————- Bathykorus bouilloni, new species. Kevin Raskoff from Monterey Peninsula College (where I got my start in science!) describes a new genus and species of . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 14th, 2010 2 comments New Research, Organisms, Weird Best of Zelnio, Bilateria, Buddenbrockia, Cnidaria, Medusozoa, Myxozoa What looks like a worm, is completely symmetrical in cross-section, and in the words of Dr. Peter Holland: “It has no mouth, no gut, no brain and no nerve cord. It doesn’t have a left or right side or a top or bottom – we can’t even tell which end is the front!” (quoted from . . . → Read More: Say Hello to My Little Friend
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 1st, 2009 5 comments Coral, Organisms Cnidaria, Coral, Polyps, Zoanthids Cnidarian Lifeforms from Delrious on Vimeo. Hat tip to Penguin Wanderings. By Kevin Zelnio, on October 16th, 2009 Leave a comment Uncategorized California, Cnidaria, Coral, Gersemia juliepackardae, Julie Packard, Monterey, Octocoral, Packard Foundation, Soft Coral, sponge TGIF IS DEAD LONG LIVE TGIF! Craig and I are making some changes around these parts. You’ll notice them soon enough. One change starts now. We are getting rid of one of our longest running and most successful (not very) commerical franchises. We are disbanding the traditional Friday Deep Sea Pic and TGIF. We will . . . → Read More: Friday Freak 10/16/09 – Gersemia juliepackardae
By Dr. M, on June 30th, 2009 156 comments Organisms, Pictures and Movies aliens, Annelida, bryozoa, Cnidaria, cryptozoology, invertebrates, Naididae, North Carolina, sewer, slime mold, Tubifex, viral video, zooid The latest viral video is from the sewer under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. The mysterious creatures found are nothing short of disgusting and spectacular. This video has made its way to Video Sift and various cryptozoology sites. Speculations on the nature of this creature run from bryozoans, cnidarians, slime molds, and some mysterious . . . → Read More: Creatures from the Sewer
By Dr. M, on March 23rd, 2008 4 comments Adaptations, Coral, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms Aclidae, Cerithiopsidae, Cnidaria, Crinoid, Echinodermata, Epitoniidae, Eulimidae, Fire Urchin, Gasrtopod, Janthina, Janthinidae, Mollusca, Ophiotrix, Parasite, Porpita, Ptenoglossa, Triphoridae, Wentletraps The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked out on in the past. In my previous work I have focused on the Ptenoglossa likely a paraphyletic or polyphyletic group, established originally of unspecified rank by Gray (1853). It . . . → Read More: Echinoderms, Cnidarians, & The Gastropods That Parasitize Them
By Peter Etnoyer, on December 14th, 2006 6 comments New Research Box Jelly, Cnidaria, Coral, Cubozoa, gorgonian, jellyfish, Rhopalium, Tripedalia, Visual Ecology I study deep-corals (gorgonians mostly) but I am fascinated by all things cnidarian (sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish, corals). These are suspension feeders that filter food from the water column, so I am also inevitably drawn to dabblings in physical oceanography, and I will try to post on these whenever I can. For now, though, I . . . → Read More: The Jellyfish are Watching
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