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…
B-Movie Posters
There is nothing better than combining the genre of the B-Movie poster with marine life. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has 6 e-cards to choose from. …
View More B-Movie PostersTangled Bank and Carnival of Evolution
Kristjan Wager (no relation to Pascal) has the 116th Tangled Bank collection online at Pro-Science! Mike Haubrich also has the 4th edition of the Carnival…
View More Tangled Bank and Carnival of Evolution27 Best Deep-Sea Species #16: Red-eyed gaper Chaunax
Meet the red-eyed gaper, Chaunax sp., more commonly known as "by-catch" in commercial fishery operations. Gapers are Lophiformes, in the anglerfish group, with big heads,…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #16: Red-eyed gaper Chaunax27 Best Deep-Sea Species #17: Tripod fish Bathypterois
The only thing more absurd than a fish walking on stilts is a fish walking on stilts with a rubber chicken, I always say. The…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #17: Tripod fish BathypteroisCompensation For Missing Limbs
Being on the high seas as either a pirate or the slightly less glamorous oceanographer, often results in missing limb and body part. For example,…
View More Compensation For Missing LimbsThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #18: "Venus Fly Trap" Anemone
by Kevin Zelnio Photo on left courtesy of MBARI. Photo on right taken in 2004 in the Gulf of Mexico. Notice anemone’s attachment to tubeworm.…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #18: "Venus Fly Trap" AnemoneJelly Eats Fish, Gets Eaten by Nudi and Turtle
C’est la vie pauvre méduses…
View More Jelly Eats Fish, Gets Eaten by Nudi and TurtleUSB Versatile Microscope
All the strange things that could be done with this piece of equipment. The mind boggles.
View More USB Versatile MicroscopeThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #19 Black Devil Anglerfish
#19 Black Devil or Humpback Anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, Class Actinopterygii, Order Lophiiformes, Family Melanocetidae) This species has become the vertebrate poster child for deep-sea science. …
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #19 Black Devil AnglerfishThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #20: Swimming Sea Cucumbers
by Kevin Zelnio Images copyright the SERPENT Project. #20 Enypniastes eximia (Phylum: Echinodermata, Class: Holothuroidea, Order: Elasipodida, Family: Pelagothuridae) Craig likens this semi-transparent sack of…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #20: Swimming Sea Cucumbers