Conservation International wins this year’s Award for Affirmative Action by hiring an endangered species to raise awareness about biodiversity conservation and habitat loss. His health…
View More Sea turtles are bloggers,tooCategory: Uncategorized
Stocking the Lab with Megaverts
Sure I could have lab full of undergraduates, graduate students, and post doctoral fellows working away at my research. On the other hand I could…
View More Stocking the Lab with MegavertsDaddy, Do Whales Sleep?
The offspring is at it again this time asking about the nocturnal habits of whales. Luckily, Cortunix over at Blog Around the Clock addresses just…
View More Daddy, Do Whales Sleep?From The Desk of Zelnio: Dermochelys coriacea
So you walk into the pet shop, you’re looking around at all the little animals and you see a cute little turtle in a freshwater…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: Dermochelys coriaceaElephant Seals
Elephant Seal Photographs at Ano Nuevo State Park.
View More Elephant SealsElephant Seal, Interrupted
Story by Sara Maxwell and Patrick Robinson, University of California-Santa Cruz Imagine it. The sun is shining. You’re snoozing on a sandy beach. You’re a…
View More Elephant Seal, InterruptedDaddy, Where Do Whales Go When They Die?
Well son/daughter, their decomposing carcasses bloat up, sink to the deep, dark ocean floor, where other animals rip away their flesh and consume their bones*.…
View More Daddy, Where Do Whales Go When They Die?Leatherback turtles: going where few air-breathers dare
When you hear about deep-diving, air-breathing animals, you might first think of colossal sperm whales plunging over 1,000 meters to battle giant squid in the dark abyss. Or perhaps you think of massive elephant seals spending over an hour at depths over a half a mile down chasing prey. But what about turtles?
View More Leatherback turtles: going where few air-breathers dareMegavertebrate Week
The writers at Deep Sea News are big fans of all things invertebrate. We bend over backwards trying to convince people that deep-sea worms, isopods, anemones, and squid are the coolest animals anywhere on Earth. We stick up our noses at charismatic megafauna like sea turtles and whales, thinking “What could possibly be so interesting about air breathing animals with bilateral symmetry?” We recognize that “normal people” like the vertebrates, … especially the marine megavertebrates.
View More Megavertebrate WeekTortoise and Hare Ridges
Attributed to Aesop is the old parable of the tortoise and the hare. We all know the story and the moral. Slow and steady wins…
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