Slip into a smoking jacket, pour yourself a glass of bourbon, light a cigar, and enjoy this post on 10 Ocean Species Every Man Should Love. One of the rarest engines you can find in an early 70’s Dodge Charger is the 426 cubic inch Hemi V8. The 426’s asking price in 1970 was over . . . → Read More: 10 Ocean Species Every Man Should Love: Part 1
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By Dr. M, on  February 21st, 2012  18 comments  Biodiversity, Critters  Blanket Octopus, bourbon, Charger, cigars, Clint Eastwood, Dodge, Hemi, Josey Wales, Lemmy, manly, masculine, Men Men Men, Motorhead, narwhal, Pistols, Portugese Man-O-Ware, Shrimp, smoking, zooids In the Land of Awesome there exists people who know how make shrimp out of bendy straws. Click on image to check it out at Make Magazine. Hat tip to @Monkey_Fist on Twitter. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}In the Land of Awesome there exists people who know how make shrimp out of bendy straws. Click on image to check it out at Make Magazine. Hat tip to… 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. M, on July 11th, 2010 2 comments Oil Spills BP, cleanup, corexit, Cuba, Deepwater Horizon, deepwater well, Drilling, Emergency Relief Well Act, Florida Keys, Galveston, Gulf of Mexico, Jindal, Lake Pontchartrain, NOAA, Obama, offshore, Oil Spill, oysters, relief well, shorebird, Shrimp, super skimmer, Susan Shaw, tarball This satellite radar image taken by Envisat's ASAR sensor at 10:44pm local time on July 7 shows a large patch of oil extending north from the site of the leaking Macondo well, and an area of small slicks along the Mississippi shoreline. A large dark area extending from Mobile Bay to beyond Panama City . . . → Read More: Oil Spill Update July 11, 2010
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 27th, 2010 2 comments Art, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Vessels and Equipment Biomimetics, Canoe, Hydrothermal Vent, Project S, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, Southern Fried Science Southern Fried Scientist has finally posted our latest creation. Those follow @sfriedscientist and @kzelnio on twitter may have heard us mention Project S. It is a biomimetic concept canoe of the highly charismatic deep-sea shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. I’ve previously blogged about the fascinating eye of Rimicaris for those interested in learning more. Andrew and I . . . → Read More: Behold the Rimicanoe!
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 1st, 2010 7 comments Adaptations, Invertebrate Wars, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Best of Zelnio, Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent, Infrared, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Radiation, Retina, Rhodopsin, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, vision Rimicaris exoculata, from this Japanese website (click image) *Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with temperatures reaching over 350 C, en masse in the darkness of the deep sea. It has a certain peculiarity in that its . . . → Read More: The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 12th, 2010 One comment Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Weird Argeiopsis, Arthropoda, Best of Zelnio, Bopyrid, Crustacea, Isopoda, Parasite, Parasitic Castration, Shrimp, Stenopus Isopods, you know them as those adorable little roly-poly bugs under rocks in the forest or the gigantic Bathynomus of the deep sea. They are also those cute and cuddly parasites in the gill chamber of shrimp too! Awww, How special! In a recent issue of JMBA-UK, Calado et al. describe how these fuzzy wittle . . . → Read More: Isopods Cause Reproductive Death in Shrimp
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 20th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Alvinocaris, Alvinocaris komaii, Back-Arc Basin, Best of Zelnio, COI, Eastern Lau Spreading Center, ELSC, fiji, Genetics, Hydrothermal Vent, Lau Basin, Morphology, Shrimp, Systematics, taxonomy, Tomoyuki Komai Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in the time since then! I always meant to give the back story on it but hadn’t the time while I madly finished writing my Masters degree. I’ve finished and got . . . → Read More: Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species
By Dr. M, on May 20th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Aliens of the Deep, chemical dependence, chemical energy, cold seep, Craig Young, energy, food, food availability, food chains, food sinking, Hydrothermal Vent, James Cameron, Jon Copley, life cycle, Paul Tyler, photosynthetically-derived food, Reproduction, Seasonality, sex, Sex Week, Shrimp Post by Jon Copley. Dr. Jon Copley is a lecturer in marine ecology at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He is also director of SciConnect Limited, a company providing training in science communication and media skills. Jon is an avid deep sea explorer and studies the reproductive ecology of deep sea invertebrates, especially . . . → Read More: Sex At Vents: Lights On or Off?
By Dr. M, on April 15th, 2009 12 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Critters, New Research, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Arthropoda, Crustacea, Hydrothermal Vent, molecular phylogeny, scientific article, Shrimp, species Kevin described a new species today. What have you done? KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from hydrothermal vents at the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific, and a key to the species of . . . → Read More: Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!
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