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…
All The Better To Eat You With My Dear!
The evolution of parrotfish saw two morphological innovations, pharyngeal jaw modification and the novel intramandibular joint. The pharyngeal jaw, a characteristic of all parrotfish, is…
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…ranges. Yesterday, at Evolution 2009 I also attended the talk of Maria Miglietta from KZ’s old stomping grounds. Maria discussed work on species geographic boundaries…
View More Tubeworms with Really Big…Moray Eels Are Everywhere and There Is One Over Your Shoulder Right Now!
What is a marine biologist doing in Idaho? That is the question I have heard a lot lately from friends and family. The Evolution 2009…
View More Moray Eels Are Everywhere and There Is One Over Your Shoulder Right Now!Another Brittle Star City
The daily video logs from the Finding Coral Expedition just keep getting better and better. Production quality is excellent, especially the mixed audio tracks. Audio…
View More Another Brittle Star CityOMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston…
View More OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of DespairNew Carnival of the Blue – World Ocean Day Edition!
I can’t believe we didn’t get this up earlier in the week! But Mark Powell from Blogfish has a special jam packed 25th edition of…
View More New Carnival of the Blue – World Ocean Day Edition!Michael’s First Dive in the Deep-Worker
Michael Reuscher is a PhD student at Texas A&M University -Corpus Christi and a freshly minted submersible pilot engaged in the Finding Corals Expedition with…
View More Michael’s First Dive in the Deep-WorkerHappy Birthday Jacques!
Jacques-Yves Cousteau born on June 11, 1910
View More Happy Birthday Jacques!Deep-Sea Transformer Sets Record
At the beginning of May we discussed Nereus, the new $5 million hybrid-transformer-multipurpose-all knowing-swiss army knife of deep-sea research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The…
View More Deep-Sea Transformer Sets RecordFish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles Do
A commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico last month ensnared a 8ft long missile in his longline. The missile contained a hole leading the…
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