New cool research from Wagner et al. that despite the lack of “day” and “night”, deep-sea fish experience daily cycles. What is the trigger? Diurnal…
View More The Daily Going Ons Of Deep-Sea FishCategory: Organisms
Help Me Identify This
So my current research focuses on the influence of canyon topography on the biodiversity and body size of deep-sea invertebrates. To address this requires lots…
View More Help Me Identify ThisAttack of the Crab Man!
I was just thinking the other day how I wish I had crab claws so I could crush academic opposition. Grab the children and run…
View More Attack of the Crab Man!Squid Coin
Slow news week but stumbled upon this over my morning cup of joe.
View More Squid CoinOctopod Teeth
Many of you have probably seen this already. No doubt, you have said something like This thing has teeth where a beak should be —…
View More Octopod TeethReally Big Lobsters & The People Who Save Them
How much would you pay to save a lobster? $160 is the amount Chris Crowell and his wife Jyll Prole paid to purchase a lobster…
View More Really Big Lobsters & The People Who Save ThemBoring?…Hardly…Lifeless & Barren?…Not Even Close
I am concerned about comments on a few websites and in the press over the last year. Most disheartening is a EU memo entitled “Questions…
View More Boring?…Hardly…Lifeless & Barren?…Not Even CloseAttacks of the Kraken
Today is Cephalopod Awareness Day. Jason at Cephalopodcast asks us to “embrace your inner octopus and let the world know what we think of our…
View More Attacks of the KrakenThat's A Lot of Microbes
From USA Today… Hot vents deep in the ocean harbor thousands of previously unknown microorganisms, scientists report. By examining the DNA of microbes taken from…
View More That's A Lot of MicrobesI Don't Want to Cause a Panic…
…but there is more than one species of bone-eating worm! The genus Osedax (Annedida: Siboglinidae) are common features of dead whale falls and obtain their…
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