Came across this in a youtube search for something unrelated (I swear distraction is built into the YT search algorithm), but it reminded me of…
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A conversation with Mark Hay aboard the Aquarius habitat
Ten days ago I had a conversation with Dr. Mark Hay from Georgia Tech where he was at the Aquarius ReefBase habitat on the bottom…
View More A conversation with Mark Hay aboard the Aquarius habitatYour Friday Cuttlefish
A friend of CORAL, Dr Steve Cohen, passed along this great footage he captured of some randy cuttlefish on the reefs at the Wakatobi Dive…
View More Your Friday CuttlefishBaby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?
My colleagues Dr. Bruce Carlson – recently retired – and Marj Awai were the first folks to successfully collect chambered nautilus for display in public…
View More Baby Nautilus, is there anything cuter?Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the Seafloor
Dr. Janet Voight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago talks about exploring deep sea ecosystems and her research on deep sea marine…
View More Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the SeafloorReefBase broadcast tonight!
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums is holding its annual conference in Atlanta this week (Twitter #AZA2011) and at tonights iceabreaker event at Georgia Aquarium,…
View More ReefBase broadcast tonight!Deep Trouble for the Deep Sea
The deep sea is home to an estimated 10 million species, most of which have yet to be scientifically-documented. While this marine biodiversity rivals the…
View More Deep Trouble for the Deep SeaOne for the bizarre-o files
Check out this 2 ton plastinated partial whale shark dissection on display in a pedestrian shopping mall in Dalian, China: I can’t decide whether this…
View More One for the bizarre-o filesSilence in the Sierras
Last week I got back from a 97-mile backpacking trip through the southern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. We started at Bishop Pass and hike…
View More Silence in the SierrasEl Pulpo Mechanico
This steampunk octopus justifies the entire existence of Burning Man.
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