A yellow stony coral courtesy “Mountains in the Sea” scientific party, NOAA, and the Institute for Exploration via Oceanus
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Friday Deep Sea Picture 2: Deep Sea Divers of Banksy
Banksy is a prolific street graffiti artist from England who recently made the cover of Science magazine. His work often points out life’s ironies and…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture 2: Deep Sea Divers of BanksyFriday Deep Sea Picture 1: Lophelia in the Gulf
Lophelia pertusa is a framework building scleractinian coral found between 200 – 1000m in the Gulf of Mexico and around the world. Suspension feeding galatheoid…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture 1: Lophelia in the GulfFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Blob Sculpin
A Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) from Davidson Seamount. Image from MBARI.
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Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Logarithmic Spiral
The structure of the gastropod shell forms a logarithmic spiral first described by Descartes and later by Bernoulli. Good ol’ Jakob called it the “marvelous…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Logarithmic SpiralTGIF: Giant & Humboldt Squid
Been awhile since we talked about Mollusks here at DSN. A couple of Friday movies to rectify that problem. The first one not so serious…the…
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Been awhile since we talked about Mollusks here at DSN. A couple of Friday movies to rectify that problem. The first one not so serious…the…
View More TGIF: Giant & Humboldt SquidIce-free Arctic by the year 2030
Spring is in the air. Spring Break is upon us, and the mind begins to wander… to the poles? Well, yes, because researchers are now predicting a seasonally ice-free Arctic by the year 2030. Break out the kayaks and sunscreen. It’s “Wild on, Nuuk.”
View More Ice-free Arctic by the year 2030TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)
When was the last time your local news station sent out reporter by helicopter to land on an iceberg floating offshore? One of the intrepid chaps sums it up nicely,… “all my life I wanted to go to the Antarctic, now the Antarctic’s come to me.”
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