You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way…
View More Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking OverCategory: New Species
Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine
A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…
View More Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t ShineNew Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsCoral-devouring sea stars
A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in…
View More Coral-devouring sea starsThe Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lug
I first discovered Dr. Pat Krug when he gave a talk at Scripps and revealed that he had named a new species of sea slug…
View More The Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lugTide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…
View More Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea AnimalsSo big I could pet it
While sorting through my deep-sea Gulf of Mexico samples this morning I found this freakin’ huge nematode. Isn’t it awesome???? Usually its only the parasitic…
View More So big I could pet itRevealing life at the Ridge
Some amazing new pictures were released this week from the final cruise of the ECOMAR program, focused around the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone on the Mid-Atlantic…
View More Revealing life at the RidgeThe Best New Species of 2009
Each year the International Institute for Species Exploration announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year. Of the top…
View More The Best New Species of 2009The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
KAZ – A new occasional series modeled from Ed Yong’s Pocket Science where I will briefly report a few cool studies and tell you why…
View More The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods