If I were ever to write a Little Golden Book on par with The Poky Little Puppy it would about cute, little, and red, deep-sea…
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Category: Ecology
How do bone-eating worms eat bones?
The deep-sea Osedax bone-devouring worms could easily have been the poster child for Deep-Sea News instead of the Giant Squid. I love them because Osedax are…
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New video shows the hidden world under Antarctica’s ice
I’m constantly amazed by the beauty and diversity of life under Antarctica’s ice. Below is one of the best videos I’ve seen of this stunning natural wonder.…
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Rocky Intertidal v.2.0
Last year, DSN compatriot and Captain of the rag-tag crew over at Southern Fried Science, dropped a science outreach bomb. Dr. A.D. Thaler struck some ecological/technological brilliance in…
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Tentacles, Tube Feet, and Other Sticky Things.
You guys…I did a thing. I published my first book. It’s a children’s sticker book all about the intertidal squishies that I love so much!…
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Last Name: Eva, First Name: Greatest
This year marked the 100th Anniversary of the Western Society of Naturalist (WSN) meeting. An organization developed in 1910, WSN is the second oldest natural…
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Science For the People, By the People
“As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.” -John James Audubon There are few books I have seen as spellbinding…
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Craig With Big Things (and Small Things)
I have a confession. I am obsessed with ridiculously large and small things. While other children impatiently anticipated toys for Christmas, I enjoyed just as…
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TGIF: Barnacles put a ring on it
Have you ever seen the bottom of a barnacle? Or to be totally accurate, the top? I hadn’t either until a good friend and photographer,…
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What are these giant tube-shaped animals showing up in the Azores?
So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I see this picture–posted by a scuba…
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