The ends of Permian and Triassic periods were a very bad time for marine invertebrates. Suffering, starvations, watching loved ones die…very hard times indeed. A…
View More A Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!Category: Organisms
Is A Octopus Cookie Cutter Worth $35
Yes, it is! A cephalopod cookie cutter and helping to protect the oceans for just $35…that’s a slice of fried gold.
View More Is A Octopus Cookie Cutter Worth $35What are my research interests?
This is what people pay me to do.
View More What are my research interests?Deep-Sea Fish Avoid The Dead
Coryphaenoides armatus arrive to feed on bait (mackerel) set by ROBIO. Photo from here A recent study by Barry and Drazen (open access)notes that some…
View More Deep-Sea Fish Avoid The DeadThe Largest Arthropod Ever!
Caption below under next figure: Image from “Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod” (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend…
View More The Largest Arthropod Ever!How to Save The Ocean
&Here’s the list beginning with my thoughts. Hopefully the readers can suggest other ideas and revisions with the goal of this being a central archive…
View More How to Save The OceanMRSA Killed By Deep-Sea Bacteria
Before this marine-based life I worked in a hospital. One thing that scared the @#$% out of me was methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. When…
View More MRSA Killed By Deep-Sea BacteriaGorton's Law
Over at the World’s Fair… Anyway, this meme asks that you come up with your own scientific eponym. What’s that exactly? Well, first read this…
View More Gorton's LawIf you are in the neighborhood and want to see a ship sink
The much loved Texas Clipper will be sunk on this Thursday as part of the ships to reef program. Those from Texas A&M Galveston will…
View More If you are in the neighborhood and want to see a ship sinkMonster Squid Captured on Video?
An upcoming episode (Nov. 14) of History Channel’s Monsterquest will supposedly show the largest squid ever caught on video. A squid researcher with film crew…
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