Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…
View More World’s oldest animal captured alive, on videoCategory: Organisms
TGIF: Robo Octopus Biomimetics
Biomimetics is the field of study where animals provide the inspiration for engineering designs that can be exploited by us, quite literally “life mimicking”. It…
View More TGIF: Robo Octopus BiomimeticsFriday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampedeKraken rising in South Florida
Marco News reports a giant squid surfacing off South Florida. Dr. Hiro Tasaki, of the Osaka Deep-Sea Institute of Japan adds meaning with a rather…
View More Kraken rising in South FloridaTGIF: Polychaete
Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
View More TGIF: PolychaeteDeep-corals are world’s oldest animal
It hasn’t been too long since Brendan Roark first reported that deep-sea corals off Hawaii are clocking in as the world’s oldest animal. At four…
View More Deep-corals are world’s oldest animal100 Word Post: Hurdia victoria
Anomalocaris ruled the Cambrian seas but apparently so did a twenty centimenter cousin. Hurdia victoria, originally described in 1912, was known from just a jumble…
View More 100 Word Post: Hurdia victoriaNerve Toxins In The Deep
Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of…
View More Nerve Toxins In The DeepSex For Flatworms is Both Love and War
From the video, “It’s known as penis fencing, and the worms are the swordsmen” Potentially NSFW if having the word the penis said a dozen…
View More Sex For Flatworms is Both Love and WarDracula Fish From Myanmar Doesn’t Vant to Suck Your Blood
Not deep sea but awesome nonetheless! The Full story is National Geographic News. “Despite their ghoulish appearance, the fangs likely aren’t used for feeding. “We…
View More Dracula Fish From Myanmar Doesn’t Vant to Suck Your Blood