“I know you drowned him in the ocean, these bones don’t lie…” Ever heard of forensic limnology? Neither had I, until I had a random…
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Category: Plankton
The Plankton Pundit
One of the many reasons that I find plankton to be so delightful is the sheer joy of seeing something so beautiful and alien pop out of…
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A Research Cruise in 12 Animated Gifs
Hey everyone I went out on a research cruise in the Bering Sea! We threw a lot of expensive shit in the ocean. Starting with this…
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The Biological Pump: A short film in construction paper
In the sixth grade, we had weekly assignments that were supposed to be a mixture of arts and crafts and scholarly study. Two of my good…
View More The Biological Pump: A short film in construction paperThe sea is full of life, but not quite that full
A couple weeks ago this photo was going viral with the headline “A Single Drop of Seawater, Magnified 25 Times”: This was one of this…
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Stung by a box jelly? Oil and lemon may help.
There are many anecdotal remedies for jellyfish stings, from urine to meat tenderizer, but this one may be the tastiest. A case report published in the…
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The most beautiful animal you've never seen
When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand…
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Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.
Recently we at Deep-Sea News have tried to combat misinformation about the presence of high levels of Fukushima radiation and its impact on marine organisms…
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A whale and a whale shark walk into a bar…
A bar, somewhere in the ocean. A whale shark sits quietly sipping a Krillians. Whale shark (quietly): <sip> Ahh, that’s some good Euphausia right there.…
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This case is short but sweet. The fossil record is what we scientists have always used to reconstruct past conditions in the ocean. Like any…
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