Last week, we wrote a teaser on what would happen in the sea during the eclipse. But now the results are in and YES! CALAMITY…
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Category: Plankton
The Ancient Ocean of the Dakota Access Pipeline
You pull your old car to the side of the road, slow to a stop and turn the key: the fire in your engine dies.…
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This deep-sea jelly looks like something from a dream
A beautiful jelly was just sighted by the Ocean Explorer as they cruise the deep sea near American Samoa live at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov. According to Dr. Allen Collins–a zoologist at NOAA and…
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Am I a Robot or am I a Plankter?
I just learned that the ocean robots I work with are taller than me. Since being insecure about size seems to be a thing now, I…
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What are these giant tube-shaped animals showing up in the Azores?
So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I see this picture–posted by a scuba…
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Where is the best place to put your ocean cleanup device? Not where currently proposed.
You might think that to clean up the problem of plastic in the ocean, you should place your cleanup device where there is the most…
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Go home Dinoflagellate, you’re drunk
Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it…
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Meet Phylliroe: the sea slug that looks and swims like a fish
Biologists have a habit of naming things after cool animals. Cars named after comb jellies, internet passwords after giant squid. Most of these names I…
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Release the Glaucus!
Aliens? Squishies? Deformed Plastic? Jellyfish? Many descriptors have accompanied the emails, texts, and Facebook messages that have recently flooded my cellular device, all describing one unique…
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The Plankton Chronicles
WARNING: Scrolling down might result in relinquishing a good portion of your Monday watching videos of squishy, wonderful plankton. If this is the kind of procrastination…
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