While sorting through my deep-sea Gulf of Mexico samples this morning I found this freakin’ huge nematode. Isn’t it awesome???? Usually its only the parasitic species that get so big, but this one is a free-living species. I’ll be pretty pissed off if BP has made this one extinct… While sorting through my deep-sea Gulf . . . → Read More: So big I could pet it
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By Dr Bik, on  September 15th, 2010  6 comments  Biodiversity, New Species  deep sea, Gulf of Mexico, nematode, New Species By Dr. M, on September 12th, 2010 8 comments Biodiversity Biodiversity, biodiversity crisis, extinction, nematode, New Species, taxonomy A professor once told me that if you removed everything from earth and just left the nematodes you would still recognize the outlines of everything. I have absolutely no idea if this is even remotely true. I do know that, hyperbole aside, nematodes represent one of the most abundant forms of life on earth. The . . . → Read More: How Many Deep-Sea Nematodes Are There & Why We Many Never Know
By Dr. M, on August 3rd, 2010 7 comments Books/Media, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion Bull Patrol, Expedition, Hydrothermal Vent, media, New Species, press, press release, Shrimp, taxonomy Inspired by the Are Headlines Hogwash? series at Dr. Carin Bondar’s wonderful blog, the editors at DSN (i.e. Kevin and I) have initiated a news series called Bull Patrol! Our goal is to call out the media for the getting carried away with headlines and reports, not doing their homework, making a mockery of colleagues’ . . . → Read More: Bull Patrol: NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED zOMG!
By Dr Bik, on July 10th, 2010 One comment Expeditions, New Species acorn worm, deep sea, Enteropneusta, Hemichordata, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, New Species Some amazing new pictures were released this week from the final cruise of the ECOMAR program, focused around the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Researchers reported a distinct set of fauna on the East and West sides of this tectonic divide (despite these sites being located only a few miles apart), and recovered . . . → Read More: Revealing life at the Ridge
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2010 One comment Biodiversity, Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Ecology, Education, Giant Isopod, New Research, Ramblings, Scientist!, Seamount, Tweets American Scientist, Biodiversity, bivalve, deep sea, Ecology, evolution, Gastropod, Giant Isopod, Hydrothermal Vent, island rule, isopocalypse, MBARI, Monterey Canyan, National Geographic, NESCent, New Species, Seamount, Sigma Xi, Snail, Southern Fried Science, twitter A potential new species of nudibranch (white box) on a bubblegum coral You might have noticed that my posting frequency is down recently. Why? 1. Kevin Z convinced me to start Tweeting. There seems to be an inverse relationship to my writing for DSN and posting Tweets. Previous attempts to integrate our Twitter content into . . . → Read More: What’s New With the Dr. M and the Oceans?
By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, New Research, New Species Annelida, New Species, polychaetes Ventral view of Swima species 1 with three attached and two autotomized b-bombs. Image © 2004 Karen J. Osborn. Or perhaps more appropriately have the bomb. Osborn et al. report in Science seven previously unknown species (0.7 to 3.6 inches) of annelid worms hailing from the deep pelagic (>1800m). All the new species form a . . . → Read More: DeepC Wormz R Da Bomb
By Peter Etnoyer, on July 30th, 2009 One comment Coral, New Species Crinoid, deep-sea coral, Living Fossil, New Species Three Endoxocrinus maclearanus flank a purple sea fan with a snake star at 2000 ft depth in the Bahamas. Image courtesy Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER If you didn’t get a chance to follow along with the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition last week, you can catch up online at the NOAA Ocean Exploration expedition website. The . . . → Read More: Deep-sea crinoid discovered in real time
By Dr. M, on April 15th, 2009 7 comments Education, Scientist! advocate, alien, creative solutions, deep sea, discovery, Eureka, exploration, Google, inquiry, Marine Biologist, New Species, ocean, offshore observation systems, Science, search phrases, travel I regularly check out the Google search phrases and terms for how people arrived at DSN. A few days ago I saw that someone asked the question in the above post. Obviously, I was intrigued by the question. I think it reminded me that I am privileged to do this. Although I speak of the . . . → Read More: Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 6th, 2009 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Expeditions, New Species, TGIF: Pictures & Movies bamboo coral, hawaii, New Species New genus of bamboo coral from 1600 m depth off Hawaii NOAA is reporting that seven new species of bamboo coral in six new genera were recovered from a November 2007 expedition in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. What a haul! Some are apparently 5 feet tall. Expedition participant Rob Dunbar of Stanford University was . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-Sea Picture: New Bamboo
By Peter Etnoyer, on December 2nd, 2008 11 comments Biodiversity, Coral, Critters, New Research, New Species bamboo coral, isidella, New Species by Peter Etnoyer A new species of deep-sea bamboo coral, a calcareous sea fan called Isidella, was reported yesterday by Discovery News and MSNBC. The species will debut with a full and proper binomial in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington at the end of December 2008. If you can’t wait, a 52 . . . → Read More: My Take: A new species of Isidella bamboo coral
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