A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely…
View More Wood, It’s What’s For DinnerMonth: November 2009
Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on…
View More Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea FloorI’m On A Boat A Cappella
Kevin and I are big fans of I’m On A Boat and the internets are full of parodies of this parody (Bert and Ernie ver.,…
View More I’m On A Boat A CappellaHosta la Vista, Nereus
Wood’s Hole’s Nereus was offloaded off the R/V Cape Hatteras today. Stood by to watch it get packed up. It was a tight fit with…
View More Hosta la Vista, NereusWith Twigs and an Animal Hide You Too Can Build a Boat
Forget the megayacht of yesterday. I am sure I can afford a megayacht timeshare…unless you can rent by the minute and I start saving now.…
View More With Twigs and an Animal Hide You Too Can Build a BoatDeepest Fish On Film
In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above, Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found…
View More Deepest Fish On FilmGiant Stingray On Film
BBC videographers caught a giant stingray on film for the first time. The smalleye, shown in the video, is the largest of all stingrays reaching…
View More Giant Stingray On FilmCrazy Fish Heads
Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body…
View More Crazy Fish HeadsSuper Yacht
More moving island than yacht, the WHY super-yacht is terrestrial luxury at sea. But this concept is no gas-guzzling Hummer of the sea ready to…
View More Super YachtCarnival of the Blue #30
Carnival of the Blue Allie has the latest Carnival of the Blue at Oh For the Love of Science.
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