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We are the onlyhottest blog on the deep sea! The saltiest marine blog! Nobody can top our skillz. But I told you before in 2008…

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Fig. 1 from Miya et al. It’s easy to be a new species, even easy to be a new genus. You got to be just…

View More New Fish Order

What’s happening in the Science News section at the Washington Post? I rarely post criticism but a recent story about bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) made me wonder what’s happening behind the journalist’s desk. Let’s pick up where the Washington Post left off.

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Rick discusses two of my favorite things coffee and enticing sea nymphs. On the origns of the Starbucks Coffee Logo at MBSL&S.

View More Caffeinated Mermaids!

Here’s another elegant headline from the Telegraph UK publication I mentioned below. You gotta love the Brits. Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything…

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View More Thankfully I Can Pass 8th Grade Science

2007…what to say? A year that saw a lot of changes. First DSN moved to the big time here at Sb. Our traffic and regular…

View More Close of 2007

This video shows why it can feel like Christmas when you’re cruising the seafloor in a submarine and you stumble upon a deep-sea coral community. The “marine snow” is falling, the bamboo corals light up like Christmas trees, the anemones, well, they kind of remind me of poinsettias.

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An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae had a column diameter of 1m, a tentacle crown of 2m diameter, and tentacles trailing an estimated 3m and more.

View More Monstrous sea anemone from 2500m

We have a new state in this country! Welcome number 53. It’s called “The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States” Of course,…

View More Deep coral happenings on Capitol Hill