Category: Organisms
Carnival of the Blue #17
CEPHALOPODS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL of this month’s Carnival of the Blue!!! There is much fine tentacled offerings over at the Cephalopodcast. Jason lays it out…
View More Carnival of the Blue #17The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #23 Dumbo Octopus
by Kevin Zelnio Whoever said that Dumbo the Flying Elephant wasn’t real?? He was actually an octopus not an elephant. Dumbo octopuses (Grimpoteuthis sp. shown…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #23 Dumbo OctopusDeepest Fish Ever Filmed
Using a remote lander* with a camera, a UK-Japan team has set a record for filming the deepest fish. The fish is Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a…
View More Deepest Fish Ever FilmedGot your freaky right here
by Peter Etnoyer When it comes to freaky, size matters. The red-eyed gaper Chaunax pictus (shown above) didn’t make the grade for freaky fish…
View More Got your freaky right hereFreaky Fish Contest
Ocean conservation group Oceana announces their online contest for the Freakiest Fish of 2008. All the nominees are for the most part deep sea but…
View More Freaky Fish ContestEchinoderm 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 ExtremeWhole Lot of Love
The love is in deep-sea mud. Maybe you didn’t know this. Now you do. Trust me, I’m an expert. As much as it pains me…
View More Whole Lot of LoveThanks George Bush!
Yellow sponge (Staurocalyptus sp. nov.), basket star (Gorgonocephalus sp.), white ruffle sponge (Farrea occa), and white-branched sponge (Asbestopluma sp. nov.) on the Davidson Seamount at…
View More Thanks George Bush!Fat and Lazy
No I am not talking about how Kevin spent his last weekend. The Colossal Squid is apparently not the voracious predator (say the last in…
View More Fat and Lazy