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 World Below the Brine By Walt Whitman
The world below the brine, Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick…
View More The World Below the Brine By Walt WhitmanEven More Enjoying the Ocean
The unexpected warmth this weekend made diving in the cold Monterey waters just a little more tolerable. Jim on the other hand believes 50 degrees,…
View More Even More Enjoying the Ocean115th Dream – Bob Dylan
As Kevin Zelnio mentions below, its National Poetry Month, but little did the man know its Copycat Day in Corpus Christi, too. Isn’t it great…
View More 115th Dream – Bob DylanThe Deep-Sea Cables – Kipling
Its National Poetry Month and the deep sea has struck the creativity and imagination of many passionate people, myself and my 2 blogging colleagues here…
View More The Deep-Sea Cables – KiplingHydrothermal Vent Octopus Ladies Discovered
Researchers have been very concerned about the paucity of females of Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis, an octopus inhabiting the hydrothermal vent community of the Eastern Pacific Rise.…
View More Hydrothermal Vent Octopus Ladies DiscoveredGlacial squid siting!
So, if the poles are slowly melting away, will icy habitats actually increase their extent as icebergs disperse to low latitudes and pack ice fractures?…
View More Glacial squid siting!It’s Growing…the Blogosphere is GROWING…BWAHAHAHAA
Probably, in response to all the trash talk I’ve been dishing out, pontificating on the superiority of Molluks to echinoderms, Dr. Echinoderm himself started a…
View More It’s Growing…the Blogosphere is GROWING…BWAHAHAHAAIt's Growing…the Blogosphere is GROWING…BWAHAHAHAA
Probably, in response to all the trash talk I’ve been dishing out, pontificating on the superiority of Molluks to echinoderms, Dr. Echinoderm himself started a…
View More It's Growing…the Blogosphere is GROWING…BWAHAHAHAAFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Blob Sculpin
A Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) from Davidson Seamount. Image from MBARI.
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