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Microbes New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea

I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business. (Seriously, people,…

Cephalopods Pictures and Movies

Dance of the Dumbo Octopus

Dr. M May 13, 2011 Dumbo Octopus

Uncategorized Vessels and Equipment

New Triton Manned Submersible

Dr. M May 10, 2011 Challenger Deep submersible

Sir Richard Branson isn’t the only one wanting to return to the Challenger Deep. Now, submersible designers Triton Submarines aims to take humans down to…

Music Reviews

Micheal Bolton sings about Giant Squid!

Holly Bik May 9, 2011 Giant Squid Music pirates video

YES, THIS JUST HAPPENED!!!! I’m totally going to be singing these lyrics now whenever I hear the ‘Pirates’ soundtrack… “He’s the pauper of the surf,…

Adaptations Mating & Reproduction Uncategorized Weird

This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with

Alistair Dove May 9, 2011 alien Asexual life cycle movies Parasite parasitoid pop culture sci fi

James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only Pulp Fiction comes close. For dark…

Reviews

Ultimate movie for First Annual DSN Film Night?

Miriam Goldstein May 9, 2011 Darwin Doctor Who movies pirates

Thanks to io9 and Garrett G, I just might have found the ultimate movie for the First Annual Deep-Sea News Film Night. Behold the glory…

Adaptations Biology Ecology Evolution Mating & Reproduction New Research Organisms

Some Echinoderms Will Never Grow Up

Dr. M May 8, 2011 development Echinodermata Phylogenetics progensis woodfall Xyloplax

Some of us never grow up. In fact I am writing this now in my Aquaman pajamas while laying on Return of the Jedi bedsheets*.…

Art Fish

Angler Fish Light

Dr. M May 8, 2011 anglerfish arts and crafts

We are clearly going to need one of these at DSN headquarters. Angler Fish light…here fishy fishy mmmyum – CRAFTSTER CRAFT CHALLENGES.

Carnivals & Link Love Cephalopods Organisms Pictures and Movies Reviews

The Kingdoms of Science

Dr. M May 8, 2011 Echinodermata illustration Mollusca

BibliOdyssey is always full eclectic book art. Just what you need to achieve your geek fix for today. Behold the illustrations from ‘Dictionnaire Classique Des…

Art

TGIF: A sky like ocean waves

Miriam Goldstein May 6, 2011 Canary Islands Nature time lapse

El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky – Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo. Via Metafilter

Deep Sea News

New Research

The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight

Introducing a New Species: My Namesake, a New Bone-Eating Worm

Hump Day Happiness: Dive into Deep-Sea Delights

New Deep-Sea Cucumber Has 100 Feet

Ancient Origins of the Vampire Squid

Holy Glowing Sea Cucumbers!

A New Deep-Sea Family of Roly Polies

How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure

Deep-Sea Mining with John Oliver

The Inside Story of the Titan Submersible

Tiger Sharks Will Nom Nom Anything

A Journey to the Hottest Place on Earth: Hydrothermal Vents and the Resilient Pompeii Worm

Opinions and Editorial

The Cost of Fear: How Perceptions of the Deep Sea Hurt Conservation

A very special PSA from Deep-Sea News

What Are Your Research Group’s Scientific Core Values?

The Continued Boondoggle of the Ocean Cleanup

Can you afford to be a marine biologist? Or a scientist?

Let’s Kill the GRE