In the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last long
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By , on October 29th, 2012 4 comments   New Research   , , , , , ,  

If you haven’t seen the VENUS deep-sea observatory’s pig-in-the-ocean experiments, you’ve been missing out. I saw them present this work at a conference a couple years ago & it is AMAZING. From New Scientist’s writeup: Now a pioneering experiment lead by forensic scientist Gail Anderson from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is . . . → Read More: In the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last long

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Watch helplessly from a mussel’s shell as it is slowly & inexorably consumed
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By , on September 24th, 2012 16 comments   Reviews   , , ,  

This may be the coolest sea star predation video of all time. Watch helplessly from the mussel’s shell as the sea star’s stomach extrudes and begins to digest the mussel alive! Via Chris Mah. Echinoderms: Sea Star Time-lapse: Eating Mussel from Shape of Life on Vimeo.

What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes
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By , on November 15th, 2011 6 comments   Adaptations, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , ,  

Our friends at Neptune Canada have posted this time-lapse video on their Youtube Page. Note the zillions of sea spiders (Pycnogonids), this is a feature of the Northwest Pacific vent province, we rarely see so many pycnogonids at other vents around the world. Sea spiders, tubeworms, scaleworms, limpets and snails crawl about in a . . . → Read More: What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes

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TGIF: A sky like ocean waves
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By , on May 6th, 2011 One comment   Art   , ,  

El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky – Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo. Via Metafilter

Cruise The Ice Pack With Russians
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By , on January 28th, 2011 One comment   Expeditions, Pictures and Movies   , , , ,  

You can watch the entire 54th Russian Antarctic Expedition led Captain Valery Viktorov on the “Akademik Fedorov” in just nine minutes. Probably will make you yearn for the sea.