I once had a corn chip that looked like Sammy Davis Jr. Unfortunately I was hungry and consumed it. I stumbled across this in my…
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A New Species at a New Vent
A recently-discovered jellyfish has been found at newly discovered vents in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: WHOI Last week while DSN focused on charismatic megafauna with…
View More A New Species at a New VentPig Butt or Marine Worm?
From MBARI: This is a worm? This photograph of the newly named worm shows its mouth, which typically faces downward as the animal drifts about…
View More Pig Butt or Marine Worm?Wine and Whales
Every since I worked at wine merchant in Natick, MA to pay for my tiny apartment during graduate school, I have enjoyed Italian wines. My…
View More Wine and WhalesBad Day For Hagfish Revisted
Some of my favorite science writers are not at National Geographic or Nature, but rather at the Monterey County Herald. They skillfully cover much of…
View More Bad Day For Hagfish RevistedNew Sharks
From The Daily Review… It is amazing what you find lying around the bottom of the ocean, as St. Mary’s College professor Douglas Long has…
View More New SharksCarnivorous Sponge Video!
You ask and we deliver! And if you have ever had any doubt we are the baddest blog ever, we have carnivorous sponge video! Bolstered…
View More Carnivorous Sponge Video!ARCHIVE: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #5 Most Species are Undiscovered/New to Science
A team under the Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones project possibly has unofficially discovered a new species of deep-sea eel. According to the explorers, numerous underwater…
View More ARCHIVE: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #5 Most Species are Undiscovered/New to ScienceMan Eating Sponges
Be careful there are 9 new species of carnivorous sponges. Luckily they are all deep sea so your chances of encountering one on any day…
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