How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Lazy Harp Seal Has No Job
Happy Sunday, everyone. Music by Parry Gripp, via Metafilter.
View More Lazy Harp Seal Has No JobThese Arms Were Made For Walking
Unlike their Echinoderm brethren, brittle stars do not move along on tube feet that can propel them in any direction. Instead, brittle stars ‘walk’. This…
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Solving the Mystery of the Placental Jellyfish
Yesterday the DSN crew first saw the video above. What is this large floating sheet of goo? Is it alive? Was it once alive? The…
View More Solving the Mystery of the Placental JellyfishWhat is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?
As many as 900 dolphins and over 4,000 pelicans have washed up dead on the beaches of northern Peru in the last couple of months,…
View More What is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?Are humans and reefs sharks mutually exclusive?
A paper by Marc Nadon and colleagues from U. Hawaii and U Miami RSMAS has been getting a good bit of press lately (see here…
View More Are humans and reefs sharks mutually exclusive?Finding Endangered Life on eBay
eBay’s history is dotted with carcasses of endangered and vulnerable species. In 2000, the Sea Turtle Conservancy announced that a large selection of illegal hawksbill…
View More Finding Endangered Life on eBaySciFund Challenge: The Aquatic Projects
I cannot say it any better than Jai and Jarrett so in their own words The #SciFund Challenge is an experiment – can scientists use…
View More SciFund Challenge: The Aquatic ProjectsThe return of #Scifund 2: fund cool aquatic biology projects!
#SciFund is back and bigger than ever. During the month of May, 75 scientists are campaigning to raise awareness and funding for their research. There’s an…
View More The return of #Scifund 2: fund cool aquatic biology projects!Amazing Fukushima-related spam
Please enjoy this delightful piece of comment spam that we received at here at DSN. I’ve redacted the contact information but left the rest as…
View More Amazing Fukushima-related spamTGIF: One does not simply walk into the lower intertidal
The always epic Alex Warneke (a.k.a. A-Pain) made us a little nerd-gift based on the gull-vs-octopus battle. Happy Friday!
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