In my inbox today was this video of a remarkable bit of animal behaviour captured on video. It shows the famous manta night dive in…
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Quick! Someone call the Fashion Police.
We have a fashion emergency. White after labor day? No. Horizontal stripes? Not exactly. Wardrobe malfunction? Definitely No. Too much skin showing at the Grammys…
View More Quick! Someone call the Fashion Police.Narwhals Gone Wild.
Have you ever laid in your bed at night, dreaming what your favorite entertainment personalities would look like re-imagined as narwhals? Well wonder no more my…
View More Narwhals Gone Wild.Underfunded academic, seeking tenure, attempts to steal research ship
David Aldridge is a phytoplankton-loving marine biology PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. Also the founder and editor of Words in mOcean, a…
View More Underfunded academic, seeking tenure, attempts to steal research shipFlip Ship Photoshop Battle
FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform, is towed to an area in a horizontal position and through changing the ballast flipped into a vertical position. In…
View More Flip Ship Photoshop BattleA murder of crows and a stipple of whale sharks?
(A Crow Left of the Murder is a particularly excellent Incubus album, btw) One of the recent papers out of my group describes an unprecedented…
View More A murder of crows and a stipple of whale sharks?Climate Change and Hurricanes, Good for Squid?
NOTE PLEASE READ UPDATES AT END OF POST Several news agencies are reporting today about an interesting phenomenon occurring in the Mississippi River. The Memphis Flyer reports……
View More Climate Change and Hurricanes, Good for Squid?Announcing the DSN Pinterest empire!
Be worried – us marine scientists are officially taking over the internet. I’m super excited to announce the launch of Deep Sea News on Pinterest. We’re…
View More Announcing the DSN Pinterest empire!Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?
When he made his historic solo dive into the Mariana Trench last month, James Cameron brought back images and descriptions of a “lunar like” marine…
View More Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?Don’t try to learn marine taxonomy from SpongeBob SquarePants
At some point someone had sent me this video as a joke – according the SpongeBob SquarePants, this is what nematodes do in the deep…
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