I guess it has just been an Anglerfish kind of week. Found this little ditty at work today and it made me giggle. May it…
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Big ugly fish eats cute little seabird.
When I was about 15 or 16, I went fishing with my step-brother. We weren’t really catching anything so we decided to drop a hook…
View More Big ugly fish eats cute little seabird.Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used Words
There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…
View More Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used WordsEndemic Genomes? Reason #1 to sequence the Deep Sea
Something to think about: the recent Gibbons et al. (2013) PNAS paper found that *one* site in the English Channel showed a 31.7-66.2% overlap in…
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Growing up in Arkansas, in the epicenter of Tornado Alley, a sound has coded on my psyche. When I hear this sound my breathing accelerates,…
View More Loud Noise Makes Crabs Even More CrabbyAnnouncing the DSN Pinterest empire!
Be worried – us marine scientists are officially taking over the internet. I’m super excited to announce the launch of Deep Sea News on Pinterest. We’re…
View More Announcing the DSN Pinterest empire!I’m a grazer baby.
I was just thinking to myself the other day on how we needed more songs about the finer things in life like seagrass and amphipods.…
View More I’m a grazer baby.Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?
When he made his historic solo dive into the Mariana Trench last month, James Cameron brought back images and descriptions of a “lunar like” marine…
View More Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?Don’t try to learn marine taxonomy from SpongeBob SquarePants
At some point someone had sent me this video as a joke – according the SpongeBob SquarePants, this is what nematodes do in the deep…
View More Don’t try to learn marine taxonomy from SpongeBob SquarePants23 Species Giant Squid or Just 1
As I mentioned before, in 1857 Japetus Steenstrup, a Danish biologist scientifically named several squids and octopods in the shortly titled Hectoctyldannelsen hos Octopodslaegterne Argonauta og…
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