I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest paper, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of…
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Oarfish Can Supposedly Predict Earthquakes, Apparently They Suck At It
A recent string of oarfish have washed ashore in California. And by recent string I mean two. On October 18th, a pregnant 14-foot long female…
View More Oarfish Can Supposedly Predict Earthquakes, Apparently They Suck At ItmOARFISH, moar problems?
Just this past week, the beaches of Southern California and Baja Mexico have been inundated by monsters from the briny deep. Well actually only one…
View More mOARFISH, moar problems?How Big Is A Colossal Squid Really?
Recently, Quarks to Quasar’s on Facebook published an illustration (above) of how massive a Colossal Squid can reach. The Facebook post was liked by 3,300 people…
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Zombie Coral Apocalypse
This past week I had the pleasure of listening to Kate Furby (@seakaterun) from Scripps Institute of Oceanography talk about her research on the Zombie…
View More Zombie Coral ApocalypseVideo of the Love Child of a Macaron and a Snork
I wrote recently of the fascinatingly bizarre Dicopia antirrhinum, a predatory tunicate of the deep sea. The authors of the study describing this strange beastie sent…
View More Video of the Love Child of a Macaron and a SnorkWhere are all the ladies at?
Last week 70-odd of the world’s whale shark researchers converged on Atlanta for the 3rd International Whale Shark Conference. It was an unusual meeting in…
View More Where are all the ladies at?Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”
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,…
View More Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”The Eeyore of the Sea
The following post is authored by Catherine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. Sixty million times.…
View More The Eeyore of the SeaCan Animals Directly Harness Solar Energy? Apparently So…
The following post is authored by Frank Lee as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. The summer is…
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