Question: What’s better than famed ichthyologist Milton Love masquerading as a hand puppet in a rockfish rap video? Answer: Not much. Barotrauma can be a…
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Category: Organisms
TGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse?
Some things are too cool to wait until Friday for the TGIF tag. Check out this spectacular footage of male Torquigener sp. pufferfish in Japan,…
View More TGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse?The Deep-sea footprint of Deepwater Horizon
The title speaks for itself, but damn, look at these figures! Last week in PLoS ONE, cool kids Montagna et al. (2013) showed some rather dramatic…
View More The Deep-sea footprint of Deepwater HorizonRecipe for a Sharknado
While we here at Deep Sea News utterly disliked the Discovery Channel fiction-presented-as-fact documentary “Megalodon” we couldn’t help but love SyFy’s “fiction-presented-as-campy-AWESOME” that was Sharknado.…
View More Recipe for a SharknadoSharks are overrated, lets talk about their microbiome
Yes, like humans (all other animals on Earth), sharks have a gut microbiome too. Everyone’s just been way too busy talking about all that Megalodon…
View More Sharks are overrated, lets talk about their microbiomeFive things about sharks you probably won’t see on TV this week
There have been a lot of tweets, blog words, column inches and TV time devoted in the last few days to the notion that Discovery’s…
View More Five things about sharks you probably won’t see on TV this weekMegalodon…phhh…most sharks are Microlodons.
A year ago, I jumped off the side of a perfectly good boat. Infinite water hides the land to the west and the ocean floor…
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Why I Still Watch Shark Week
The other day I received a slightly disconcerting text message from my cousin regarding Shark Week. She has two young kids one age 6 and…
View More Why I Still Watch Shark WeekThe Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetips
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week kicked off with a *fake* documentary about sharks, and under normal circumstances this would sink me into a big blue pit of bummer.…
View More The Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetipsLike Shark Week, But with Actual Facts
Ed Yong inspires me. It’s Shark Week, and the Discovery Channel have already jumped the shark with a fake documentary, asking if a giant prehistoric…
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