If you didn’t get a chance to follow along with the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition last week, you can catch up online at the NOAA Ocean…
View More Deep-sea crinoid discovered in real timeCategory: Coral
Friday Picture: Have your coral and eat it, too?
People accept the idea of echinoderm predation on shallow reef building corals. The voracious Crown of Thorns seastar Acanthaster planci is a familiar coral antagonist…
View More Friday Picture: Have your coral and eat it, too?Coral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
View More Coral and Brittle Stars, Together ForeverReady for another expedition?
Its summertime folks, and it seems like everyone is either heading out to sea, or returning from a recent expedition. If not that, its a…
View More Ready for another expedition?Friday deep-sea picture: Deepworkers find Primnoa
Greg Workman reports in today’s dispatch “A Great Day at the Office” that after a few days searching, the Finding Coral Expedition has … found…
View More Friday deep-sea picture: Deepworkers find PrimnoaBacterial assemblages in deep Lophelia coral
DSN friend and colleague Dr. Christina Kellogg published a new paper this month characterizing the bacterial assemblages of deep Lophelia pertusa coral in the Gulf…
View More Bacterial assemblages in deep Lophelia coralFinding Nemo by DNA parentage analysis
Since the first observations of transoceanic dispersal in marine snails (Scheltema 1971), long distance transport for marine animals has been a kind of Holy Grail…
View More Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysisWorld’s oldest animal captured alive, on video
Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…
View More World’s oldest animal captured alive, on videoDeep-corals are world’s oldest animal
It hasn’t been too long since Brendan Roark first reported that deep-sea corals off Hawaii are clocking in as the world’s oldest animal. At four…
View More Deep-corals are world’s oldest animalSeamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…
View More Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought