Watch the video above and you will better understand the high I am still experiencing after a week of fieldwork. I traveled to Mexico to…
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Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens)
Question: What’s better than famed ichthyologist Milton Love masquerading as a hand puppet in a rockfish rap video? Answer: Not much. Barotrauma can be a…
View More Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens)How horseshoe crabs may have saved your life
During my first year of grad school I conducted a jailbreak– a fellow grad student and I snuck into the Invertebrate Zoology lab and freed all…
View More How horseshoe crabs may have saved your lifeBreaking News: Dangerous and costly jelly washing ashore in Ireland by the thousands
Update: exactly three months after I wrote the original article below, this same species has hit yet another salmon farm in Ireland (21OCT13). It is my…
View More Breaking News: Dangerous and costly jelly washing ashore in Ireland by the thousandsTGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse?
Some things are too cool to wait until Friday for the TGIF tag. Check out this spectacular footage of male Torquigener sp. pufferfish in Japan,…
View More TGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse?The landscape of a sea urchin
I’ve long thought of echinoderms, a group that includes sea urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers, to be among the most alien-like animals. I did not,…
View More The landscape of a sea urchinRecipe for a Sharknado
While we here at Deep Sea News utterly disliked the Discovery Channel fiction-presented-as-fact documentary “Megalodon” we couldn’t help but love SyFy’s “fiction-presented-as-campy-AWESOME” that was Sharknado.…
View More Recipe for a SharknadoFive things about sharks you probably won’t see on TV this week
There have been a lot of tweets, blog words, column inches and TV time devoted in the last few days to the notion that Discovery’s…
View More Five things about sharks you probably won’t see on TV this weekMegalodon…phhh…most sharks are Microlodons.
A year ago, I jumped off the side of a perfectly good boat. Infinite water hides the land to the west and the ocean floor…
View More Megalodon…phhh…most sharks are Microlodons.The Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetips
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week kicked off with a *fake* documentary about sharks, and under normal circumstances this would sink me into a big blue pit of bummer.…
View More The Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetips