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…
Meet the New Sharks of 2015
The worn and weary phrase “There’s more fish in the sea” isn’t just cold solace for heartbroken saps, but for shark biologists, this means more discoveries…
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Deep-Sea Barnacle Genomics. Because, #DarwinDay
When Darwin got down and dirty with his work on Barnacles (1846-1854), everyone still assumed there was no life at all in the deep sea.…
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Yes, according to a recent study by Lancaster and colleagues. Many marine mammals are precocial in that the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment…
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The Odd Nautilus Organs Named After People
Inside a Nautilus are the normal organs—the caecum, the stomach, the crop, the nidamental gland, etc.—with normal names and known functions. However, my favorites, yes…
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Where is the best place to put your ocean cleanup device? Not where currently proposed.
You might think that to clean up the problem of plastic in the ocean, you should place your cleanup device where there is the most…
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Megafauna and Minerals on the Pacific Abyss
This guest post is from Dr. Diva Amon (on Twitter @DivaAmon). Dr. Amon is marine biologist specialising in deep-sea biology, working on a range of environments,…
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TGIF: Subway Car Artificial Reefs!
A sunken city of NYC subway cars lives off the coast of Delaware – yep, you read that right. They were sunk there on purpose,…
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The real-life cousins of SpongeBob
The beloved animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants, is the wonderful creation of animator Stephen Hillenburg. What you may not know is that Hillenburg is a marine…
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New Video of Giant Squid Surfaces
Video of a very large squid swimming near a dock made the rounds last week across many social media streams. The squid is actually an Architeuthis, aka the…
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Malacology Monthly: Going Deep
Sub-Neritic Gentrification For November we will be doing some deep thinking about deep-sea mollusks in an attempt to understand the complex history and adaptations of…
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