An upcoming meeting was brought to my attention. Let’s just say the subject made me squeal a bit. I’m as giddy as school kid with…
View More Mollusks Who Take Advantage of Others and the Scientist Who Study ThemCategory: Habitats
Barnacle Evolution I: Phylogeny Served Without Plates
Barnacle evolution was recently rewritten by a large effort of Perez-Losada and colleagues in 2008. Using a combination of genes and morphological traits they rejected…
View More Barnacle Evolution I: Phylogeny Served Without PlatesI Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten…
View More I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s ExNew squid found in Indian Ocean
A new species of squid, 0.7 meteres (2.3ft) in length was discovered among the 7,000 samples from taken from seamounts in the southern Indian Ocean.…
View More New squid found in Indian OceanSay Hello to Anna’s Pimple
SARDI scientists have discovered an extinct volcano (800m across and 200m high) 2km below the surface and 100 nautical miles offshore in a protected area…
View More Say Hello to Anna’s PimpleGhostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopus
This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to…
View More Ghostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopusTapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea Mining
Nautilus Mining is the virus that will not go away. You have to admire their persistence if it did not come with destruction of deep-sea ecosystems. Nautilus…
View More Tapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea MiningCoral-devouring sea stars
A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in…
View More Coral-devouring sea starsDeep-sea coral reefs discovered in Mediterranean
The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi…
View More Deep-sea coral reefs discovered in MediterraneanNew New Hydrothermal Vent in Atlantic Discovered
Scientists from the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen on board the German research vessel…
View More New New Hydrothermal Vent in Atlantic Discovered