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…
TGIF Bonus: Cuttlefish Eats Octopus
It is hard to know what to cheer for here
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What Do You Do With A Rare Shark?
A Blog About Cephalopod Sculpture and Jewerly…
…and I am sure some other stuff too, if I can get past all the sweet necklaces. In Sheryl’s own words… I’m a sculptor and…
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From this website… The phrase originated as ‘son of a military man’ (i.e. a gun). The most commonly repeated version in this strand is that…
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Sometimes something crosses my laptop too good to reserve for Friday. First, you need to know about Charlie the Unicorn. Watch 1 and 2 (which…
View More TGIF: Early EditionLet The Whales Die
No matter what meaning I intend with the title, it has more than likely made you uncomfortable. It makes me uncomfortable to write it. I…
View More Let The Whales DieCarnival of the Blue 23
Spring is in the air. OK, for most of us it is. Sorry northerners! (suckers) Hover mouse over lines to see blog and post title.…
View More Carnival of the Blue 23World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video
Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…
View More World’s oldest animal captured alive, on videoTGIF: Robo Octopus Biomimetics
Biomimetics is the field of study where animals provide the inspiration for engineering designs that can be exploited by us, quite literally “life mimicking”. It…
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