First time a hagfish has been collected from a vent.
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Just Science Weekend: They Eat Their Young
When you see frozen fish sticks, think cod; when you eyeball the seafood salad at Subway, think pollock. Deep-sea fishes are all around us, but we know very little about them. For example, did you know cod have a bioluminescent anus? And they cannibalize their young? If not, please, read on.
View More Just Science Weekend: They Eat Their YoungJust Science Weekend: Gadid Fish
Deep-sea cod (family Gadidae) are “one of the most important families of fishes in the deep-sea”. Their deep siblings include pollock and hake. Pollock is what they use to make fake crab legs in the Subway seafood salad. It’s packaged as sarimi, a strange white Asian boloney. Sarimi fishermen catch pollock with bottom trawls off Alaska, and press the meat into a white pressed sausage stained with bright colors in the sliced meat section at the Vietnamese grocery. Check it out sometime.
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Researchers at JAMSTEC have recently added another hydrothermal vent type, the blue smoker!
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Over at BlogCritics Magazine someone has critiqued DSN. ggwfung has not been so nice to my Sb’lings and they have in turn not been so…
View More Who Doesn't Like Being Told What They Are Doing Is Wrong?Who Doesn’t Like Being Told What They Are Doing Is Wrong?
Over at BlogCritics Magazine someone has critiqued DSN. ggwfung has not been so nice to my Sb’lings and they have in turn not been so…
View More Who Doesn’t Like Being Told What They Are Doing Is Wrong?Deep-Sea Book Recommendations For The Children
A reader recently asked me for recommendations for books about the deep appropriate for children. Here is my running list and we’ll have Peter (who…
View More Deep-Sea Book Recommendations For The ChildrenAttack of the 2000lb Deep-Sea Monster: Basic Concept
Every time some bizarre animal washes ashore or is swimming around a bay, or a lagoon, there is a media hype about how it’s from…
View More Attack of the 2000lb Deep-Sea Monster: Basic ConceptA Sexy Creature From the Black Lagoon
Urged by a reader for a more “dampened” shot, I have changed my profile picture to a recent photography taken by a colloborator and friend.…
View More A Sexy Creature From the Black LagoonWhat is the Sound of One Hydrothermal Vent Venting?
And if no one is around will it still make a sound? Crone and cronies et al. on the open access PLoS One explore the…
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