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…
Super Jellyfish?!
The above photo is making the rounds (see here and follow the link trail). In it the a scuba diver is next to Lion’s Mane…
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Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the…
View More For Want Of A Shark…Dr. M’s Merit Badges for the Order Of The Science Scouts
I had forgotten about the Order of the Science Scouts of the Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. Stickers in our swag bags at Science…
View More Dr. M’s Merit Badges for the Order Of The Science ScoutsA glass more than half full of awesome
The other deeplings (except RickMac) are at the fantastic Science Online conference this week, meeting with other scientist communicators and hatching various plots for DSN’s…
View More A glass more than half full of awesome10 Most Incredible Sunken Ships on Earth
7. Russian Wreck, South Egyptian Red Sea Known simply as the “Russian Wreck”, this sunken ship is thought by some to have been the Khanka,…
View More 10 Most Incredible Sunken Ships on EarthPerverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest!
This is a repost from my former blog The Oyster’s Garter and was originally published on March 24, 2008. I’m re-posting in honor of Kate…
View More Perverted cannibalistic hermaphrodites haunt the Pacific Northwest!TGIF – Antarctic Ice Arch Collapse
Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica.
View More TGIF – Antarctic Ice Arch CollapseTGIF – Flatworm Fu… er… Mating.
“There actually sticking their penises in each othr quite randomly.” Invertebrate reproduction or one crazy night in Vegas?? You decide! Hat tip to @echinoblog.
View More TGIF – Flatworm Fu… er… Mating.Jane Lubchenco’s message to scientists
My second week at UC Davis, and I’ve already met Jane Lubchenco. Last night the NOAA administrator gave a public lecture to a packed auditorium…
View More Jane Lubchenco’s message to scientistsI hate plants, but seagrasses are awesome
I seem to develop these weird, unfounded hatreds of various things. For example: I hate blue dinnerware. Not every shade of blue dinnerware (I LOVE…
View More I hate plants, but seagrasses are awesome