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…
FAIL Boat Sails Home
If you haven’t read the FAIL Blog yet, you are missing out one of life’s great pleasures: laughing at other’s failures! It was imperative I…
View More FAIL Boat Sails HomeCarnival of the Blue Lucky #13
The first Carnival of the Blue of its 2nd year. Carnie creator Mark Powell posts edition #13 and brings it all full circle with the…
View More Carnival of the Blue Lucky #13Live-birth from 375 million years ago
A placoderm fossil called “mother fish” has been recovered from Gogo, an ancient coral reef site off the Kimberley coast of Northwest Australia. The fossil…
View More Live-birth from 375 million years agoMore Types of Bacteria In Tropical Waters
Beware when you go on tropical holiday. Species richness of bacteria is higher in those waters. For many organisms on land (birds, mammals, snails, plants,…
View More More Types of Bacteria In Tropical WatersEpsilonproteobacteria Everywhere
“Epsilonproteobacteria, it turns out, are one of the predominant groups of extremophiles in marine systems. In one environmental DNA sample taken from a hydrothermal vent,…
View More Epsilonproteobacteria EverywhereThe Big 3: Shrimp, Tuna, and Salmon
If you read Blogfish, MBSL&S, and DSN, I think you see that Rick, Mark, and I are not advocating a complete ban on eating seafood.…
View More The Big 3: Shrimp, Tuna, and SalmonFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Little People Attacked by Giant Squid
I am a big fan of Slinkachu out of London. The art is best described by the subtitle of the project itself “A Tiny Street…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Little People Attacked by Giant SquidTGIF: Running of the Squid
PLoS ONE Get Its “Taxonomy Barrier” Broken
I really love that quote from Alex Wild, by the way. Brian Fisher (my former Evolution T.A. from ye ole UC-Davis days) and Alex Smith…
View More PLoS ONE Get Its “Taxonomy Barrier” BrokenPLoS ONE Get Its "Taxonomy Barrier" Broken
I really love that quote from Alex Wild, by the way. Brian Fisher (my former Evolution T.A. from ye ole UC-Davis days) and Alex Smith…
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