The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight
Guest post by Dr. Melissa Betters “They got it!” echoed shouts down the hallways of the Research Vessel Atlantis in Fall 2018. The whole science…
So you walk into the pet shop, you’re looking around at all the little animals and you see a cute little turtle in a freshwater…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: Dermochelys coriaceaElephant Seal Photographs at Ano Nuevo State Park.
View More Elephant SealsDoes all this talk about migrations and megavertebrates make you hungry? Do you feel like you must eat food, but you don’t want to break…
View More Dinner with a MegavertebrateStory by Sara Maxwell and Patrick Robinson, University of California-Santa Cruz Imagine it. The sun is shining. You’re snoozing on a sandy beach. You’re a…
View More Elephant Seal, InterruptedWell son/daughter, their decomposing carcasses bloat up, sink to the deep, dark ocean floor, where other animals rip away their flesh and consume their bones*.…
View More Daddy, Where Do Whales Go When They Die?When you hear about deep-diving, air-breathing animals, you might first think of colossal sperm whales plunging over 1,000 meters to battle giant squid in the dark abyss. Or perhaps you think of massive elephant seals spending over an hour at depths over a half a mile down chasing prey. But what about turtles?
View More Leatherback turtles: going where few air-breathers dareThe writers at Deep Sea News are big fans of all things invertebrate. We bend over backwards trying to convince people that deep-sea worms, isopods, anemones, and squid are the coolest animals anywhere on Earth. We stick up our noses at charismatic megafauna like sea turtles and whales, thinking “What could possibly be so interesting about air breathing animals with bilateral symmetry?” We recognize that “normal people” like the vertebrates, … especially the marine megavertebrates.
View More Megavertebrate WeekAttributed to Aesop is the old parable of the tortoise and the hare. We all know the story and the moral. Slow and steady wins…
View More Tortoise and Hare RidgesAplacophora is a class of mollusks comprised of about 320 species. They were considered echinoderms until around 1987 when they were moved to Mollusca. Species…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (04/13/07)In the most ingenious conservation fund raising idea ever, a dozen satellite tagged sea leatherback sea turtles will be released simultaneously from the shores of Costa Rica. Leatherback turtles in the Pacific have declined 90% over the last decade. These deep diving sea turtles are in dire need of help. Pick a turtle and place a wager.
View More Turtle-lympics, turtle-mentaries, and turtle-omedy