Butt munchers
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By , on March 6th, 2013 8 comments   Adaptations, Organisms   , , , , , ,  

Some animals vent their anuses. And, no, I’m not referring to the act of waving a hand around ones posterior to diffuse the gaseous remnants of chilidogs. Some sea stars, sea cucumbers, crinoids, worms, and crustaceans all pump huge volumes of water into and out of their anus. Why would you do this outside of . . . → Read More: Butt munchers

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Examiner Taxonomy FAIL
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By , on June 21st, 2010 4 comments   Opinion & Editorial, Organisms   , , , ,  

Do I really need to point out the error here? At least they got it down to Kingdom correctly… Click on the image to go to the original article. UPDATE: The critter is a pelagic sea cucumber, phylum Echinodermata, genus Enypniastes which is #20 on our list The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species. I can’t . . . → Read More: Examiner Taxonomy FAIL

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NE Pacific Expedition Day 6 & 7
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By , on September 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can also follow the expedition here. Monday was consumed with our second dive on the north end of Coaxial (46.5191126, -129.588406) along the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Two and a half kilometers down we slowly make our way across lava . . . → Read More: NE Pacific Expedition Day 6 & 7

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Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
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By , on April 3rd, 2009 6 comments   Organisms, Pictures and Movies   , , , , , , , ,  

Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, northeast Atlantic. They occur in high densities over large areas (Smith et al. 1997). Yes, but, where are they going? They’re up to something, for . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede

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