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Month: October 2008

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The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #7 Predatory Tunicates

Dr. M October 26, 2008

#7: Megalodicopia hians (Phylum: Chordata, Class: Ascidiacea , Order: Phlebobranchia, Family: Octacnemidae) This tunicate post is dedicated to Miriam. Those invertebrate sacs are one of…

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Conservation & Environment

Fall In Oil Prices May Be Good News For the Deep

Dr. M October 24, 2008

Maybe this recession isn’t all bad. Rapid fall in oil prices brings majors to their pain threshold – Times Online

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Happy Squid Friday!

Kevin Zelnio October 24, 2008

Just because.  Wearing something cephalopodaliscious? Take a picture and send it to me or leave a link in the comments and we’ll put it up…

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The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #8 Red Lure Jellyfish

Dr. M October 24, 2008

#8: Erenna sp. (Phylum: Cnidaria, Class: Hydrozoa, Order: Siphonophorae, Family:Agalmatidae ) Roxanne..You don’t have to put on the red light..Those days are over…You don’t have…

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Pictures and Movies

TGIF: Spoon Worms and Nudibranchs

Dr. M October 24, 2008

Artour A’s flikr account contains several truly spectacular marine and terrestrial invertebrate photographs. At Kevin’s other garage blog, Eric originally brought my attention to this. …

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Pictures and Movies

TGIF: Fish Blimp

Dr. M October 24, 2008

Air Art from flip on Vimeo.

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Expeditions

Fall is so refreshing or the Beagle's eye in the sky

Peter Etnoyer October 24, 2008

Fall is so refreshing. New semester, new things happening, a chill in the air. It’s practically Christmas in Texas, if you ask me. Halloween is…

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Giant Isopod

The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!

Kevin Zelnio October 23, 2008

Fending off a sneak attack by the wily isopod.#9 Bathynomus giganteus (Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Malacostraca, Order: Isopoda, Family: Cirolinidae) Beware the giant isopod. When it…

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Expeditions

Dispatch from Sea: DISCOVRE Expedition

Peter Etnoyer October 23, 2008

One of the problems we face as deep-sea biologists is our limited understanding of the 4th dimension – temporal variability. We don’t know much about…

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The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #10: Echinothuriid Sea Urchins

Dr. M October 22, 2008

You have to go to Echinoblog for #10 because who better to write about echinoderms than Doc Echinoderm.  The quick and dirty of why these…

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