Coral, It’s Alive
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Coral gardening shown in a spectacular timelapse via videosift.com

Video Feed Live From 30 Meters
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It has been a long year waiting to announce this. Last year Dr. Adrian Glover, long time DSN fan from the Natural History Museum in London, showed me a live feed of camera mounted on a dead harbor porpoise from 30m in a fjord on the west coast of Sweden. As we set there in . . . → Read More: Video Feed Live From 30 Meters

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How Do You Do Mr. Monkfish?
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Hat tip to one of my favorite blogs, Ugly Overload. Remember, when you eat monkfish this is the beautiful beastie your unleashing your taste buds upon! From the Youtube page for the video uploader, OceanContent: “Sitting on the keel of the HMS Ark Royal, this Monkfish let us take some close up shots about 80 . . . → Read More: How Do You Do Mr. Monkfish?

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Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano
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When put in water, volcanoes may increase in size From National Geographic: The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the volcano has been growing considerably in the last three years. Chadwick says the volcano has expanded 131 feet in height and nearly a thousand feed in width, about as . . . → Read More: Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano

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Jurassic Journey, the Preview
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Leatherback turtles are huge! They look like big, black, barnacle-encrusted sea zeppelins, or something. See them in this trailer for Jurassic Journey. The production quality is good, and it sounds exciting. Why am I not watching this on Discovery Channel? The Great Turtle Race features these creatures. Sea more turtle video at NatGeo, even . . . → Read More: Jurassic Journey, the Preview

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TGIF Bonus: Cuttlefish Eats Octopus
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It is hard to know what to cheer for here

TGIF: Schyphozoan Jellyfish, Atolla wyvillei
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TGIF: Polychaete
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Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

TGIF: Penguins Speak Out On Global Warming
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Totally NSFW!

MBARI YouTube Channel
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently unleashed their new YouTube Channel. Of course it features Macropinna but you can also see Humboldt squid. A new video (below) on Davidson Seamount that discusses research I have been involved with was just uploaded today. . . . → Read More: MBARI YouTube Channel

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