Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep…
View More Guest Post: The Largest Habitats on EarthCategory: Biology
Samurai and Deep-Sea Loricifera Should Use More Rouge
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world-Horace It is good to carry some powered rouge in one’s…
View More Samurai and Deep-Sea Loricifera Should Use More RougeWhat’s New With the Dr. M and the Oceans?
You might have noticed that my posting frequency is down recently. Why? 1. Kevin Z convinced me to start Tweeting. There seems to be an…
View More What’s New With the Dr. M and the Oceans?Fiddler Crabs Moult for a Breath of Fresh Air
Everyone knows that all crabs moult. Its no secret. When you wear you skeleton on the outside, its difficult to find the room to grow.…
View More Fiddler Crabs Moult for a Breath of Fresh AirWhen the dinner bell rings for seafloor scavengers, larger animals get first dibs
I am very excited today! My new paper in the journal Ecology will be coming out in April on the regulation of biodiversity in the…
View More When the dinner bell rings for seafloor scavengers, larger animals get first dibsClimate Change and Food Availability in the Deep
A nice, new video produced by MBARI about Dr. Ken Smith’s research: “The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of…
View More Climate Change and Food Availability in the DeepWhat the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
[Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical…
View More What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?The Dark Side of Male Pregnancy
Nicely narrated by Henry Gee! See the paper here: Paczolt KA, Jones AG (2010) Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male…
View More The Dark Side of Male PregnancyIsopods Cause Reproductive Death in Shrimp
Isopods, you know them as those adorable little roly-poly bugs under rocks in the forest or the gigantic Bathynomus of the deep sea. They are…
View More Isopods Cause Reproductive Death in ShrimpMolluscs, now with 100% more awesum
A blog war is starting to develop again. No I am not talking about this one. I am talking about the Great Invertebrate Wars. Everything was…
View More Molluscs, now with 100% more awesum