Act 1: Wood Falling on Water At two miles below the ocean’s surface, I see wooden carcasses, once buoyant, lying listlessly on the abyssal seafloor.…
View More A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep: A Narrative in Five ActsCategory: Organisms
In the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waiting
The real title of the paper is “Multiple self-splicing introns in the 16S rRNA genes of giant sulfur bacteria”. But who’s going to fall out of…
View More In the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waitingTGIF – the coral triangle, a-capella style!
From the Barber lab at UCLA comes this awesome video. Not only can they sing better than most biologists, but the lyrics are great! I…
View More TGIF – the coral triangle, a-capella style!TGIF – 100% live coral cover
Right now our own @rmacpherson is in the Pacific, talking coral and shark conservation Fiji. In honour of his trip, here is a beautiful video…
View More TGIF – 100% live coral coverMore annelid than anaconda
This post has been updated to reflect that this worm should be called the Sand Striker. Please refer to the following post in regards to…
View More More annelid than anacondaWill marine conservation miss out at the next CITES meeting?
CITES is the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, to which 175 nations are signatories. Along with the IUCN Red List, it’s one…
View More Will marine conservation miss out at the next CITES meeting?TGIF – My secret life as plankton
h/t Bruce Carlson and TED
View More TGIF – My secret life as planktonTurf wars
I was lucky enough to attend an all-day workshop today, just down the road at Georgia Tech, where Prof. Mark Hay organised the Teasley Symposium…
View More Turf warsTGIF – Ctenophore Photonics Beat Jazz
CreatureCast – Ctenophore Photonics from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.
View More TGIF – Ctenophore Photonics Beat JazzCool as a sea cucumber: life (and death) at extraordinary deep sea pressures
Edit – In the original article I said that the sphere of the Deep Challenger was made of titanium. In fact, it’s made of steel. …
View More Cool as a sea cucumber: life (and death) at extraordinary deep sea pressures