My very first post at Deep Sea News was a tongue in cheek look at how much we don’t know about the largest of all…
View More A first look at the biochemistry of whale sharksCategory: Organisms
Is this fish evil?
I was going to do a “demons of the deep” post for Halloween but as I was considering which animals to include I had to…
View More Is this fish evil?Can You Handle Monster Roll?
Monster Roll from Dan Blank on Vimeo. This. Looks. Amazing. From their FB page: “When sea monsters attack Los Angeles, a network of sushi chefs…
View More Can You Handle Monster Roll?The mystery of lobster shell disease
Most folks I know aren’t shy about crunching into a nice red American lobster and dipping that white flaky meat in some molten butter, and…
View More The mystery of lobster shell diseaseAlaskan whales think we sound like Swedish chefs
Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish has a super blog post up about a beluga whale that was recorded mimicking the sounds of human speech. It concludes…
View More Alaskan whales think we sound like Swedish chefsSolved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?
No doubt you have seen the lonely big eye in the sea story by now. A giant eyeball washed ashore on a Florida beach and then…
View More Solved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?Algal blobs take shape, thanks to bacteria
What if your physical characteristics (hair color, height, or eye color) were determined by your bacterial microbiome? It might seem far fetched for humans, but…
View More Algal blobs take shape, thanks to bacteriaThe world’s most promiscuous snail
On the winner goes the Rough Periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) from the North Atlantic (both sides of the pond) On average, each clutch of 70 offspring had 19…
View More The world’s most promiscuous snailHow the Gastropod Got Its Twist
All snails and their ancestors, the Gastropods, share a common feature. We people with fancy Ph.D.’s in biology call this a synapomorphy, a word derived…
View More How the Gastropod Got Its TwistA sucker for convergent evolution
Recently Chris Mah, that most passionate advocate of all things with pentaradial symmetry (i.e. echinoderms: urchins, starfish etc.), wrote an excellent blog post about how…
View More A sucker for convergent evolution