Mufasa was right. We’re all intertwined. Whether we humans like to admit it or not, every action by a living organism on Earth has repercussions. …
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TGIF: 8-Legged Mom Has 50,000 Babies: 2-Legged Woman Watches
H/t to NPR Laurynn, it turns out, often spends her winter evenings diving into the ocean, not too far from Harbor Avenue in downtown West…
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Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and…
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How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The OceanThere’s No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
From the MBARI YouTube page: By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over…
View More There’s No Such Thing as a JellyfishKRAKEN Day: The Final Tentacle
Well, I managed to wrestle away the reigns of the blog from our gracious guest editor tonight, Mr. Archie Teuthis. I think he did a…
View More KRAKEN Day: The Final TentacleKRAKEN Day: Release the Kraken!
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid By Wendy Williams Abrams Publishing, 224 pages Reviewed by David Manly for Deep Sea News:…
View More KRAKEN Day: Release the Kraken!KRAKEN Day: Tennyson’s Poem
THE KRAKEN Alfred Lord Tennyson Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep…
View More KRAKEN Day: Tennyson’s PoemKRAKEN Day: Humboldts, They’re Here to Stay and They’re NOT Giant Squid
From Dr. M in 2007: If you been keeping up here at DSN, you probably already know that Humboldt squid are invading further north up…
View More KRAKEN Day: Humboldts, They’re Here to Stay and They’re NOT Giant SquidKRAKEN Day: Big Dead Squid
Its hard to believe that way way back in 2007, Kevin Z was writing his epic song Big Dead Squid, which launched in blogmusic career.…
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