This video of a swimming Tremoctopus or “blanket octopus” was shot in the Gulf of Mexico in 180 feet of water at Eugene Island South…
View More TGIF: Strange Blanket OctopusCategory: New Species
Friday Deep-Sea Picture: New Bamboo
NOAA is reporting that seven new species of bamboo coral in six new genera were recovered from a November 2007 expedition in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: New BambooMBARI YouTube Channel
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently unleashed their new YouTube Channel. Of course it features Macropinna but you can also see Humboldt squid. A…
View More MBARI YouTube ChannelTwo Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time
No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong…
View More Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The TimeI Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…
…from the Echinodermata. Chris Mah has heard my call and unleashed the World Asteroidea Database. This will definitely make roll call easier when I assemble…
View More I Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…Deep Sea Creatures Are Super Freaks
A scientific examination of the Tasman Fracture Zone by a group of scientists (including some from CSIRO and the California Institute of Technology) uncovered 274…
View More Deep Sea Creatures Are Super FreaksEchinoderm Weirdness Extreme
Chris at Echinoblog has Part 1 of Xyloplax Chronicles up. For those who don’t know Xyloplax are some of the strangest wee-beasties to inhabit the…
View More Echinoderm Weirdness ExtremeSome Deep issues today.
While Deep Sea News is still preparing our new home, spackling the cracks, painting the walls, sanitizing the fridge, throwing out the empties form the…
View More Some Deep issues today.The Earliest Known Metazoans
In 1964 S.B. Mirsa, a graduate student at Memorial University in Newfoundland, discovered a group of well-preserved fossilized soft-body animals. Subsequent research revealed the fauna…
View More The Earliest Known MetazoansGot a Spare $25,000?
With a lot of extra spare change you could name a species
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