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…
Lighted Whoopie In The Sea: Repost
In the deep dark sea, bioluminescence is the name of game. Its central role is unequivocal for many organisms. Do different sexes of species display…
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Clearly Isaac Hayes drew his inspiration from the limpet Crepidula fornicata for this classic funk soul hit. Crepidula, known as a slipper limpet, is a…
View More Sequential Lovin’: You and Me and You and YouSea turtles get it on, and on, and on…
Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea Turtle…
View More Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on…I have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.
Post by Shawn M. Arellano. Dr. Shawn Arellano is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her PhD research at…
View More I have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.Who’s Talking Dirty Today?
Spreading the love on sex week! The good Dr. Byrnes talks about sex in flatworms with Penis Fencing: Dangerous or Decadent? Greg Laden ponders the…
View More Who’s Talking Dirty Today?Got Gonad?
In an upcoming paper I have in press with colleagues, we are describing 4 new species of Anemone form hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific.…
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Post by Amanda “not a sponge” Kahn. Amanda Kahn is currently a masters student at well-known Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, considered to be one of…
View More “Sleezy” sponge sexualityObama reaches across the Argh-isle
“But as I said during the campaign, we can’t just talk to our friends. As hard as it is, we also have to talk to…
View More Obama reaches across the Argh-isleThe Sand Dollar Love Shack: A Special Echinoblog to DSN
Post from Chris Mah, purveyor of all echinoderm. Dr. Christopher Mah is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He…
View More The Sand Dollar Love Shack: A Special Echinoblog to DSNIntroduction to Sex Week
This is the official introduction to Sex Week at DSN. We here at DSN never shy away from writing about sex. Through reproduction, fitness is…
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