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…
Remembering Raup
I asked my friend and colleague Roy E. Plotnick, paleontologist and faculty in the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago,…
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10 Not-So-Obvious Ways Seaweed is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
Remember way back, when you couldn’t leave the dinner table before you ate all of your leafy veggies? Remember how for 8 year old you,…
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Car-sized ball of squid eggs filmed off the coast of Turkey
Oh July 9th, 2015 a group of lucky divers happened upon something truly remarkable–A 4-meter-wide clear sphere floating off the coast of a small town in Turkey.…
View More Car-sized ball of squid eggs filmed off the coast of TurkeyOMG Its A Monster From the Deep…Or It’s A Colossal Squid
A Russian trawler for Patagonian Toothfish, probably in the Antarctic Seas, caught video of a Colossal Squid. The squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, was feeding on one of longlined…
View More OMG Its A Monster From the Deep…Or It’s A Colossal SquidNicholas Cage is making a movie about the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Yes, you read that right. I have no idea what it’s about, or why it’s named “The Runner”, but I do know that the trailer contains Nicholas…
View More Nicholas Cage is making a movie about the Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillWendy Schmidt XPRIZE is an awesome win for ocean health, ocean science and ocean technology
If I ever meet Wendy Schmidt in person, it’s probably going to be awkward. I’ll be doing my best to not instantaneously bear hug this…
View More Wendy Schmidt XPRIZE is an awesome win for ocean health, ocean science and ocean technologyThe Tension of Intention: A Surfer, A Shark, A Fox, And A Grizzly
Guest post by DSN Alumni Rick Macpherson When my pal Dr McClain yanked me out of retirement and asked me to pen a quick post…
View More The Tension of Intention: A Surfer, A Shark, A Fox, And A GrizzlyThe Science of Sea Bunnies: You’ll Never Believe The Top Ten List We Created To Get You To Visit Our Website.
Recently a friend brought to my attention that the Internet was losing its collective mind over “sea bunnies”. Googling, “sea bunny” I found articles at International Business Times,…
View More The Science of Sea Bunnies: You’ll Never Believe The Top Ten List We Created To Get You To Visit Our Website.This squid won’t stop staring at you
Stop it. Stop staring at me Taonius sp. All the other squids that MBARI featured during Cephalopod week are either cute, athletic, or named after…
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My love of snail shells did not begin at a young age. This is not a story of a 6-year old boy discovering his first…
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