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The Fantastical Beasts of the Deep Gulf of Mexico

I recently returned from nearly two weeks at sea with a motley and intrepid crew exploring the Gulf of Mexico almost a mile and half…

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Peak Poke? (Or, Our Choices Have Consequences)

RickMac April 18, 2017 hawaii poke pono sustainable fishery tuna WESPAC

One of my favorite urban myths is that at any point in time you are never more than six feet away from a rat. Turns…

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The Return to Silent Spring

Alex Warneke April 6, 2017 Chlorpyrifos EPA Guest Post scott pruitt

This is a guest post dually written by Nick Hayman and Dr. Violet Renick. Last week, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt denied the petition to ban…

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Trolling in the deep: from raging rants to support of the strange

Archie Teuthis March 17, 2017

Today’s guest post is by Natasha Phillips, a marine biologist and PhD researcher based at Queen’s University Belfast, interested in the movement ecology, diet and…

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Look at These Amazing Deep-Sea Creatures from the Remote Pacific Right Now

Dr. M March 12, 2017

[View the story “Discovering the Deep: Exploring Remote Pacific Marine Protected Areas” on Storify]

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Reef raving revisited: 4 good reasons for fish to glow in the dark

RR Helm February 10, 2017

This is a guest post form Maarten De Brauwer, a PhD candidate at Curtin University. You can find more of amazing work from Maarten on his…

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Ocean Sunfish are the most useless animal (an epic rant)

Holly Bik February 6, 2017 fish mola-mola Ocean Sunfish Rant useless animals

Ocean Sunfish, also known as Mola Mola, look like a pancake and are just the weirdest fish. I was ambivalent about these creatures until reading…

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In the evolution of fishes, this is a one seahorse race*

Dr. M December 26, 2016 evolution fish genome sea dragon seahorse

*alternative titles include “Looking a gift seahorse (genome) in the mouth”, “My kingdom for a seahorse genome”, “Hold your seahorses“, and “The galloping evolution of…