I am really surprised a new paper in Nature did not receive more press given its potential to create a shift in how we view…
View More A New Paradigm For Hydrothermal VentsCategory: New Research
Baby Jaguar Sharks Like To Hang Out in Corals
Figure 2 from Etnoyer and Warrenchuk (2007). Callogorgia americana delta colonies with catshark egg cases attached. Depth 533 m. ROV suction hose on the left…
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Climate oscillations, even small ones like the Madden Julian Oscillation, can have a deep impact on the oceans, down to a mile deep. The Telegraph UK calls one newly revealed oceanographic mechanism a “freak” ocean wave because it travels underwater, with little or no surface expression. This was such a good spin I had to promote this to main title.
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The deep-sea pickings are sparse this year at the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology in San Antonio, TX. That’s OK, It’s a great meeting.…
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A recent study linking deep-sea biodiversity to ecosystem processes recognized that 1) the deep-sea supports the largest biomass of living things on the planet and…
View More Diversity linked to ecosystem functionOcean Front Property in Arizona
A new study in Nature: Geoscience suggests that current estimates of sea-level rise in response to global warming are too low. Rohling et al. utilize…
View More Ocean Front Property in ArizonaA Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!
The ends of Permian and Triassic periods were a very bad time for marine invertebrates. Suffering, starvations, watching loved ones die…very hard times indeed. A…
View More A Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!We Are Going to Need Some More Money
Perhaps as no shock, oceanography is going to need some more money, about $2-3 billion to be exact. A group of international scientist called the…
View More We Are Going to Need Some More MoneyThe Largest Arthropod Ever!
Caption below under next figure: Image from “Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod” (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend…
View More The Largest Arthropod Ever!Real Time Dissertation
We at DSN try to report on the research as it happens. Now we report on research before it happens! DSN’s old whipping boy Kevin…
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