This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! ———————————————————————————————————— This is…
View More Repost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane SeepsCategory: Biology
Walruses, Like Other Marine Mammals, Are Disgusting Little Perverts
NSFW or your local aquarium. It should come as no surprise by now that marine mammals are foul little nymphomaniacs. Utterly horrendous how he just…
View More Walruses, Like Other Marine Mammals, Are Disgusting Little PervertsPycnogonids, more than spiders of the sea
Much of the earth’s biodiversity lies within the phylum Arthropoda. You are probably aware of many species within the group trilobites, spiders, centipedes, crabs, insects,…
View More Pycnogonids, more than spiders of the seaLife in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile Survive
At this year’s National Association for Biology Teachers conference, Steve Haddock from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, spoke on deep ocean habitats. The National…
View More Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile SurviveWhy Are There No Super Whales?
The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger? The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling. To appreciate…
View More Why Are There No Super Whales?Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner
A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely…
View More Wood, It’s What’s For DinnerSame Girl
Yo Ush, What up Kels Wanna introduce you to this girl, think I really love this girl, Yeah? Man she so fine, Straight up dawg?…
View More Same GirlWho likes protandric hermaphrodites?
Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we…
View More Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the…
View More The Origins of Deep-Sea FaunaAnother Species With Forehead Sexual Organs
Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins. They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400…
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