Metagenomics is so easy to understand, right? Scientists just go out and get DNA sequences from…stuff…in the environment. And then they answer lots of questions,…
View More So you think you know Marine Metagenomics?Category: Fish
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Why is it that we seem to have moved away from celebrating images like the one above left (a big game hunter posing over a…
View More This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice ThingsExaltation to Extinction for Sawfishes
At first glance, a sawfish appears otherworldly, lifted from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book. One fish, two fish, blue fish, sawfish…there was a…
View More Exaltation to Extinction for SawfishesWhale Sharks and Giant Squids: Big or Bu!!$hit?
The bubbles around me clear and as I regain my visibility my first thought is how wide is the mouth coming for me. Five feet?…
View More Whale Sharks and Giant Squids: Big or Bu!!$hit?10 Ocean Species That Challenge Gender Role Stereotypes
1. Seahorses-Males Giving Birth Th example might be an obvious one but worth the mention. Male seahorses possess a pouch on their frontside, similar to kangaroos. During…
View More 10 Ocean Species That Challenge Gender Role StereotypesTrue Facts and a Haiku About the Angler Fish
Love this video about angler fish. Just the right amount of laughter and science this new ear needs! Of course our favorite at DSN is…
View More True Facts and a Haiku About the Angler FishThe unusual diet of deep-sea fish
In January 2004, Mathew Jones was processing the bycatch from New Zealand lobster stock assessment. Six fish including a silverside, Bollons’ rattail, jock stewart, dark…
View More The unusual diet of deep-sea fishA first look at the biochemistry of whale sharks
My very first post at Deep Sea News was a tongue in cheek look at how much we don’t know about the largest of all…
View More A first look at the biochemistry of whale sharksIs this fish evil?
I was going to do a “demons of the deep” post for Halloween but as I was considering which animals to include I had to…
View More Is this fish evil?Solved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?
No doubt you have seen the lonely big eye in the sea story by now. A giant eyeball washed ashore on a Florida beach and then…
View More Solved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?