Researchers have been very concerned about the paucity of females of Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis, an octopus inhabiting the hydrothermal vent community of the Eastern Pacific Rise.…
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Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Blob Sculpin
A Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) from Davidson Seamount. Image from MBARI.
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New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale Poo
A species of holothurian, Pannychia, swarms a whale fecal mound in the abyssal Pacific. When Miriam visited me last week at MBARI, we discussed over…
View More New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale PooDeep Oceans and Deep Space
I don’t study hydrothermal vents. I rather enjoy the deep muddy ooze, and its organisms, that comprise much of the earth’s surface. Not that I…
View More Deep Oceans and Deep SpaceWhen Spider Crabs Meet Subs
The following is a cartoon drawn by the boson of the R/V Ronald H. Brown.
View More When Spider Crabs Meet SubsWho Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you’d be a little on the kinky side…
View More Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in HaremsFriday Deep Sea Picture: March of the Brisingids
Picture copyright C. Fisher/Ridge2000 Brisingids look like crinoids, but they are actually sea stars, just kind of turned over. this particular beauty is Freyella sp.…
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Rhizocephalan overlord,Peltogaster paguri (tubular thing sticking up on the right), infecting hermit crab. Photo courtesy of Jens Hoeg, used with permission. Rhizocephala are curious creatures.…
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