What’s up with cartilagenous fish and cameras? First a manta ray absconds with a $5000 dive camera. Now a Porbeagle shark bares his pearly-whites on…
View More Maine Diver Fends Off Shark With CameraCategory: Organisms
New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsWorst Headline Ever?
Deep sea fish take ugliness to new level, says Niwa Shame…shame…shame to ever thought that calling deep-sea fish ugly was a compelling way spin the…
View More Worst Headline Ever?RIP Paul the Octopus
He was good cephalopod. He will be sorely missed by the Spanish, not so much by the Germans. NPR reports that at the ripe age…
View More RIP Paul the OctopusCuriouser and Curiouser
This is a special report Jarrett Byrnes, a marine ecologist at University California, Santa Barbara and blogger at I’m a Chordata, Urochordata. ————————————– Something new…
View More Curiouser and CuriouserOf eyes and sex in lizardfishes
145 million years ago, in the Cretaceous, the air was warm and the seas were high and rum flowed freely. On land, mammals were oppressed under dinosaur…
View More Of eyes and sex in lizardfishesGhostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopus
This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to…
View More Ghostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopusWorst coral death strikes at Southeast Asia
If the impending coral death in the Caribbean didn’t make you nauseous… International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and…
View More Worst coral death strikes at Southeast AsiaCaribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever
And to end you day on a uber-depressing note, sure to give you at least some nightmares Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may…
View More Caribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst EverWatch This
Rick is much to humble to post this himself. Luckily that is what I am here for. Rick of Coral Reef Alliance opens up the…
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