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…
First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878Undular bores – not just for dinner parties
This gorgeous atmospheric wave pattern, caught by satellite, was visible off Baja California Sur on Sunday. Scripps graduate student James Means wrote: [Dr.] Larry Armi…
View More Undular bores – not just for dinner partiesGuest Post: The Invisible Side of Plastic Marine Debris
This is a guest post by Chelsea Rochman. Chelsea is a doctoral student in ecotoxicology at University of California Davis and San Diego State University.…
View More Guest Post: The Invisible Side of Plastic Marine DebrisHOLY $#!@ KILLER WHALES EAT GREAT WHITES!!!1!!1!
Major hat tip to Bomai Cruz on twitter. More details at National Geographic. RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!! ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY…
View More HOLY $#!@ KILLER WHALES EAT GREAT WHITES!!!1!!1!Resistance is Futile: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Network Effect
There’s no getting around it, science is a social enterprise. Go ahead, try and do some by your lonesome. Oh, you may putter and dial-twirl…
View More Resistance is Futile: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Network EffectDSN Adds To Its Ranks
With great pleasure I am pleased to announce that Rick Macpherson, of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets notoriety, is joining Deep-Sea News as a contributor.…
View More DSN Adds To Its RanksHow One Sushi Chef Transitioned to Sustainability
Water Blogged, the blog of the Living Oceans Society, has a very nice post up about why it is important to educate yourself about sushi.…
View More How One Sushi Chef Transitioned to SustainabilityIf Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?
Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods?…
View More If Molluscs Could Communicate What Would They Say?Riftia pachyLinka
Carnival of Evolution #27 is up at 360 Degree Skeptic. Lots of good stuff on the menu there! Of interest to many of our readers,…
View More Riftia pachyLinkaFollow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!
Remember Dr. M’s recent disturbing post about the quelling of independent science in the Gulf? I can now officially announce that my lab was one…
View More Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!