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…
The Science of Everything and Giant Isopods
COSMOS magazine touts itself as the providing the “Science of Everything”. The last issue (21) seems to deliver with articles on space elevators, Greenland’s ice…
View More The Science of Everything and Giant IsopodsLegislative reform needed to protect oceans from seafloor mining
The Wealth from Oceans Flagship at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) released a new report on seafloor mining Friday. The story…
View More Legislative reform needed to protect oceans from seafloor miningThe Earliest Known Metazoans
In 1964 S.B. Mirsa, a graduate student at Memorial University in Newfoundland, discovered a group of well-preserved fossilized soft-body animals. Subsequent research revealed the fauna…
View More The Earliest Known MetazoansWear Your Science!
From WearScience.com. Hat tip to Ed “rocket boy” Yong. I am partial to the cowboy scientist riding the wild microbe, but I’ll probably get the…
View More Wear Your Science!6:1 or None?
I like Miriam, she is a lady that gets it. Go there now and read her excellent post on the story behind the 6:1 ratio…
View More 6:1 or None?TGIF: Jumping Rays
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View More TGIF: Jumping RaysFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Sting Ray Migration
A Sting Ray migration off Key West.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Sting Ray MigrationBush's BOP; the President's Big Ocean Plan
The Bush administration has outlined plans for a “blue legacy” that would use Presidential authority to establish new national monuments, along the lines of Papahanaumokuakea…
View More Bush's BOP; the President's Big Ocean PlanI Choose Sharks Over Cigarettes
People are freaking out about the recent outbreak of shark attacks. This recent massive increase in shark attacks has media outlets claiming that a shark…
View More I Choose Sharks Over CigarettesPollution in deep-sea squid
You would think that deep-sea squid could hide from human pollution like dichlorodiphenyl- trichloroethane (DDT) and tributyltin (TBT), but these and other persistent organic pollutants…
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