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The Hat You Didn’t Even Know You Needed.

I now know what all the Deeplings are getting for Christmas…. This might be the best thing I have ever seen on Etsy.

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Boom Boom like a Jellyfish

Dr. Martini August 20, 2015 Boom Boom Jellyfish Dance DJ Jellyfish

How this song escaped being the summer earworm of 2015 is beyond me?! I have no idea what it means or even if jellyfish go…

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The Art of Saving Our Seas

Alex Warneke August 10, 2015 PangeaSeed SeaWalls SeaWallsMX StayWild

“Artivism: An explosion of creativity, a marrying of art and activism” Over the past three years, street artists across the globe have taken up their brushes, prepped…

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Dolphins and Drugs – The Shocking Connections

Douglas Long August 6, 2015 dolphins drugs

Is Flipper a junkie? Deep Sea News has always provided the fair and balanced approach to dolphins, recognizing their essential role in the oceans’ ecosystems, yet…

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Malacology Monthly: A Look at Bivalves, From Both Sides Now

Douglas Long August 4, 2015 bivalve Clam cockle conchology invertebrate zoology malacology mollusk reef scallops seafood

Bivalves: clams, scallops, oysters, cockles, and mussels, have rich lives and complex evolutionary histories far beyond the deep-fryer. Here are vignettes of four bivalves that…

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How currents pushed debris from the missing Malaysian Air flight across the Indian Ocean to Réunion

Dr. Martini July 31, 2015 currents Indian Ocean marine debris MH370

What seems to be debris from the Malaysian Air flight MH370 that mysteriously vanished in March 2014 has washed up on on the island of Réunion…

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Remembering Raup

Dr. M July 31, 2015 Chicago David Raup evolution extinction obiturary Paleobiology

I asked my friend and colleague Roy E. Plotnick, paleontologist and faculty in the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago,…

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10 Not-So-Obvious Ways Seaweed is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You

Alex Warneke July 25, 2015 bacon beer compounds OSU Science seaweed

Remember way back, when you couldn’t leave the dinner table before you ate all of your leafy veggies? Remember how for 8 year old you,…

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Car-sized ball of squid eggs filmed off the coast of Turkey

RR Helm July 24, 2015

Oh July 9th, 2015 a group of lucky divers happened upon something truly remarkable–A 4-meter-wide clear sphere floating off the coast of a small town in Turkey.…

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Wendy Schmidt XPRIZE is an awesome win for ocean health, ocean science and ocean technology

Dr. Martini July 22, 2015 ocean acidification ocean sensor pH Sunburst Sensors Wendy Schmidt XPRIZE

If I ever meet Wendy Schmidt in person, it’s probably going to be awkward. I’ll be doing my best to not instantaneously bear hug this…