I am very excited today! My new paper in the journal Ecology will be coming out in April on the regulation of biodiversity in the…
View More When the dinner bell rings for seafloor scavengers, larger animals get first dibsCategory: Organisms
Climate Change and Food Availability in the Deep
A nice, new video produced by MBARI about Dr. Ken Smith’s research: “The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of…
View More Climate Change and Food Availability in the DeepIsopocalypse 2010: Giant Isopods Storm the Internets
Across the internets a craze is sweeping. We here at DSN are calling it Isopocalypse 2010 (stay up to date using the Twitter hashtag #isopocalypse2010).…
View More Isopocalypse 2010: Giant Isopods Storm the InternetsThe ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp
*Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with…
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Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell SeaWhat the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
[Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical…
View More What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?The Deep Sea Is Chimaera Country
Beautiful, high-quality footage of Chimaeras captured by Neptune Canada. Story here.
View More The Deep Sea Is Chimaera CountryFriday Cephalocomics
Apparently Batman + Lightsaber vs. Shark was just the start of an oceanic comics avalanche. Please enjoy 20,000 Leagues of DANGER!!! from the excellent comic…
View More Friday CephalocomicsThe Dark Side of Male Pregnancy
Nicely narrated by Henry Gee! See the paper here: Paczolt KA, Jones AG (2010) Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male…
View More The Dark Side of Male PregnancyTiny Tuna for Japan
What. The. Fuck?!?1?11?11!!? (pardon my language) A proposal by Monaco to extend the highest level of U.N. protection to the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin,…
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