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…
Deep Coral Grove Video
Bubblegum trees and red tree coral from Georges Bank Nova Scotia.
View More Deep Coral Grove VideoDeep-sea corals are rich and beautiful, like their shallow tropical counterparts
This is first in a series of five referenced articles about shared characteristics in deep-sea and shallow-water corals.
View More Deep-sea corals are rich and beautiful, like their shallow tropical counterpartsDeep and Stony
A yellow stony coral courtesy “Mountains in the Sea” scientific party, NOAA, and the Institute for Exploration via Oceanus
View More Deep and StonyCoral References In the Bible
Given the comments on the last post, I thought it time to give almost-a-religion-major Craig a work out. The origin of the word coral is…
View More Coral References In the BibleHistory of the word coral
Coral is a polyphyletic term for polypoid animals in the cnidarian classes Anthozoa and Hydrozoa that secrete either 1) a black, horn like proteinaceous axis…
View More History of the word coralWelcome to Coral Week
Deep corals hold secrets just like the shallow ones. They have a lot in common, actually. We’ll write about that over the next 7 days during Coral Week at Deep Sea News.
View More Welcome to Coral WeekNorth Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9
Continuing the series from VBS.tv‘s TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. They finally actually do something, but they are still just as annoying. Yet,…
View More North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9
Continuing the series from VBS.tv‘s TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. They finally actually do something, but they are still just as annoying. Yet,…
View More North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 8 & 9Friday Deep Sea Picture: Freaks of Crustacea
Is that a gang sign that crab is flashing? West Side ya’ll! A half-blue lobster! Its cool how the mutation only affects part of the…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture: Freaks of CrustaceaNorth Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 6 & 7
Continuing the series, here is parts 6 and 7 from VBS.tv‘s series TOXIC-Garbage Island. Contains some vulgar language. If you can get past the annoying…
View More North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 6 & 7