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Author: RR Helm

RR Helm is a postdoc studying sea anemones and jellyfish at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Biology Life At Sea Parasites Pelagic Pictures and Movies Plankton

The most beautiful animal you've never seen

RR Helm February 20, 2014

When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand…

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Biology Cnidaria Genetics Mating & Reproduction New Research

Scientists use electricity, drugs, to uncover the secret world of jellyfish

RR Helm February 3, 2014

Researchers have announced that, thanks to a whole slew of amazing science gadgets, they can now control the jellyfish life cycle, causing mini-jellyfish blooms in the lab…

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Biology Cnidaria Education Gadgets & Gear New Research

Creation of the world’s first Peanut Butter and Jellyfish

RR Helm January 27, 2014

Ladies and gentlemen, I could not make this up if I tried. I owe my thanks to Wyatt Patry for sharing this study with me,…

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Environmental Sciences Industry & Government Natural Disaster

Worst-case scenario thinking and Fukushima radiation

RR Helm January 23, 2014

This isn’t a map of radiation, it’s a map of wave estimated hight after the Tohuku Tsunami. So why is there so much outrage and…

View More Worst-case scenario thinking and Fukushima radiation
Abyss Biology Cephalopods Evolution Uncategorized

This vampire’s surprising secret

RR Helm December 19, 2013

Vampire squid–with cloudy blue eyes, a blood red body, and barbed arms– may be the deep sea’s most frightening creature, but according to a new…

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Comb jellies, not sponges, may be your most distant animal relative

RR Helm December 12, 2013

For over a hundred years scientists have assumed that sponges (yep, the animal that inspired your kitchen sponge), are our most distant animal relative. And why…

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Biology Crustacean Mating & Reproduction Uncategorized

This may be the ocean’s most horrifying monster (and you’ve probably never heard of it)

RR Helm October 25, 2013 Rhizocephala

When I first learned about rhizocephalan barnacles I lost my appetite. I was taking a parasitology course, and even though I’d developed a thick skin, something…

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Biology Pelagic Vessels and Equipment

Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”

RR Helm October 10, 2013

Why send jellies to space? Well, because it’s awesome (true for anything in space), but mostly because of little crystals jellies keep in their bodies,…

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Uncategorized

Jelly killing machine tested in Korea

RR Helm October 3, 2013

I hate watching jellies suffer, and this is my personal version of Hell: These killing machines are called the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm, or JEROS,…

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Sometimes you just gotta punch deep-sea squid with a toilet brush

RR Helm September 26, 2013

Nothing makes my day like scientists attaching a toilet bowl cleaner to an ROV in order to prank some squid. Watch them scare the crap…

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