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…
Are the ocean and atmosphere finally cooperating and is El Niño really here? Probably.
El Niño has been playing with my heart for a whole year now*. It’s coming. It’s not coming. It’s gonna be huge. It’s not coming…
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For Hoff Yeti Crabs Food, Sex, and Birth Determine Living Space At Vents
Within just a few short centimeters the temperature drops from 350˚C to -1.5˚C (692 to 29.3˚F). At 2.6 kilometers deep in the Antarctic Ocean lies the East…
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What the hell is a “Sea Hawk” anyway?
The Bird is the Word, but it’s the Wrong Word for the Right Bird It’s Superb Owl Sunday,…
View More What the hell is a “Sea Hawk” anyway?Spurious correlations: How Alaskan pollock predict a Seahawks Super Bowl win!
This is a guest post by Kirstin Holsman, who works on developing quantitative methods for ecosystem-based fisheries management and methods to assess and manage for climate-change…
View More Spurious correlations: How Alaskan pollock predict a Seahawks Super Bowl win!Reef Roulette
Isn’t coral reef conservation hard enough without having to also constantly re-invent yourself for every swing of the funding pendulum? Well your friends here at…
View More Reef RouletteA Year in the Life of the Bowhead Whale
Ever wonder what Bowhead whales, the only baleen whale that spends it’s entire life in the Arctic and sub-arctic, do all year round? Well now you…
View More A Year in the Life of the Bowhead Whale5 Reasons Why Great White Sharks are the Blackberry of the Seas
The following post is authored by Leo Gaskins as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. 1. They…
View More 5 Reasons Why Great White Sharks are the Blackberry of the SeasWhale Shark and Manta Ray Gif Roundup
Dr. Simon Pierce (@simonpierce) is a marine biologist extraordinaire focusing on whale sharks. He is the Principal Scientist at the Marine Megafauna Foundation and Science Coordinator of the Global Whale Shark…
View More Whale Shark and Manta Ray Gif RoundupOcean Sunfishes: The Eeyore of the Sea
The following post is authored by Catherine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. Sixty million times.…
View More Ocean Sunfishes: The Eeyore of the SeaWhat is the world’s largest barrel sponge?
It is the 2.5 meter (8.2 feet) diameter giant (photo below) that was a tourist attraction for scuba divers visiting Curaçao in the Caribbean in the…
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