SCAMIT (Southern California of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists) has released the best calender of the year – a marine invertebrate calendar! Long time DSN reader Leslie…
View More Kick off ’09 with a Marine Invert Calendar and ClockCategory: Organisms
Deep Sea Japanese Papercraft
Reader Steve T. sent in some awesome papercraft from JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. You can print out a paper from…
View More Deep Sea Japanese PapercraftFabric Giant Isopod
I really want this so badly! Too bad I both can’t sew (except of course field wounds) and read Japanese. Maybe Ellie can help me…
View More Fabric Giant IsopodRick Macpherson is Our Hero…
…for so many different reasons. First he totally gave my former intern the hookup with a sweeeet position at CORAL and it only cost me…
View More Rick Macpherson is Our Hero…I’m A Goblin Shark
Due to the annoying autoplay feature as noted by Karen below that I can’t disable, follow this link over to rathergood.com to see the video. …
View More I’m A Goblin SharkIf you’re in town…
…make sure you catch Greg Caillet’s talk this Saturday on the Pacific Grove Natural History Museum at 2pm. Greg is a professor at Moss Landing…
View More If you’re in town…The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #2: Bone-Devouring Zombie Worms from Hell
#2 Genus Osedax (Phylum: Annelida, Class: Polychaeta, Order: Sabellida, Family: Siboglinidae) BONEZ1!! WE WANTZ UR BONEZ!! Perhaps the scariest deep sea creature, Osedax (latin for…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #2: Bone-Devouring Zombie Worms from HellThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!
Fending off a sneak attack by the wily isopod.#9 Bathynomus giganteus (Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Malacostraca, Order: Isopoda, Family: Cirolinidae) Beware the giant isopod. When it…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!Life in the abyss is no protection from bad weather
A new article highlights the really cool work that has come from Ken Smith and Henry Ruhl. Ken’s lab has monitoring a deep-sea abyssal site…
View More Life in the abyss is no protection from bad weatherVirgin Shark Birth
Jennifer Viegas over at Born Animal has a story about virgin animal births (called Parthenogensis) and a video of sharks mating! There was a report…
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