by Peter Etnoyer When it comes to freaky, size matters. The red-eyed gaper Chaunax pictus (shown above) didn’t make the grade for freaky fish…
View More Got your freaky right hereAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
New Hall of the Oceans at the Smithsonian
by Peter Etnoyer If you live in Washington DC, or plan to visit within the next 30 years, you’ll have to make time to visit…
View More New Hall of the Oceans at the SmithsonianLophelia II cruise update (09/24/2008)
No diving here today. A pressure wave rolled in from Nova Scotia (?), and the 5-7 ft. swells associated with the trough make ROV deployment…
View More Lophelia II cruise update (09/24/2008)Photo from the field: Lophelia II 2008
Here’s an image from yesterday’s dive to 300 m at a Green Canyon site with SeaView’s SeaEye Falcon ROV in the Gulf of Mexico. The…
View More Photo from the field: Lophelia II 2008Expedition underway
by Peter Etnoyer NOAA’s RV Nancy Foster left port in Gulfport, MS today with a complement of biologists, geologists, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) pilots, and…
View More Expedition underwayDolphins on drugs
by Peter Etnoyer What do you think happens to all the caffeine, cumadin, and Xanax people take every morning? They go into wastewater. How about…
View More Dolphins on drugsCrazy shark eggs
Sharks lay eggs. And deep-sea catsharks lay some of the strangest eggs of all.
View More Crazy shark eggsFreshman year
Welcome to Deep Sea News at Discovery. If you don’t know me already, I’m Peter. I study deep-sea corals, particularly the gorgonacea, sea fans that…
View More Freshman yearFarewell, Sciborg
Farewell, Scienceblogs. This will be my last post at SB’s DSN. It’s a little sad for me, because I kinda feel like I grew up here.
View More Farewell, SciborgTGIF: Friday Deep-sea Picture (09/12/08)
If art is the universal language, how do you say “don’t eat orange roughy”?
View More TGIF: Friday Deep-sea Picture (09/12/08)