Category: Pictures and Movies

Much deliberation has occurred here behind the scenes at DSN about whether to air the following clip. It’s horrible to ruin the beauty of nature by adding obscenity to a documentary. We are only posting this as an example of how not to conduct public outreach.

View More Planet Earth … with Tourette's

This picture seems timely as I long to return to the Big Island. It’s a photo I took of a green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Chelonia mydas

I’m a huge Seinfeld fan and predictably this is my favorite episode. The second clip is a wonderful animated version of the same episode.

View More TGIF: I Told Her You Were A Marine Biologist

At 00:48, video of the Japanese Spider Crab, or the Dead Man’s Crab*, occurs and touted as the world’s largest. But is it? Sure its…

View More TGIF: Is the Dead Man’s Crab The Largest

At 00:48, video of the Japanese Spider Crab, or the Dead Man’s Crab*, occurs and touted as the world’s largest. But is it? Sure its…

View More TGIF: Is the Dead Man's Crab The Largest

A two-coloured lobster caught by Digby County (Nova Scotia) fisherman Edward Pothier. Tina Comeau photo Lobster color derives from the presence of three different pigments:…

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Two-Colored Lobster

Given the west coast storm of the century last weekend, today’s FDSP seemed appropriate (click for larger image). Via howtoons.

View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Beufort Scale

Host Tom Cavanagh (TV’s Ed, Scrubs) discovers that author John Steinbeck was also a marine biologist He donated lots of specimens to the Smithsonian’s museum…

View More TGIF: Steinbeck