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…
Outta-sight jelly babies discovered under black light
So, the flower hat jellyfish pretty much looks like someone painted it while tripping on acid. It doesn’t just have tentacles on the edges, no…
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Mantas to Reef Fishes: I Drink Your Miltshake
Manta Rays are nature’s spawn vacuums. Aided by new technologies and teams of overworked graduate students and unpaid interns, and prodded by the dismal decline…
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Female Crabs Only Eat Their Own Young When They’re Hungry
For many ocean invertebrates, the first stage of life occurs as tiny larvae in the plankton. The toughness of the planktonic larval life has caused…
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The Ocean Cleanup, Part 2: Technical review of the feasibility study
INTRODUCTION This is the second of a two-part post. In the first installment, Kim presented alternatives to this project. This installment is a collaboration between…
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The Ocean Cleanup, Part 1: Alternatives to reduce ocean plastic
This is the first of two-part post. This installment is written by Kim, who will present alternatives to the Ocean Cleanup project to help curb the…
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Sea Walls: Lessons from a Paint Can
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes…
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Feces Friday: Marine Edition
Here’s your recap of the top excretion-related news in the past few weeks, and what it means to our ocean world: Mo’ Whales, Mo’ Poop,…
View More Feces Friday: Marine EditionAnd We Add Another To Our Ranks
So I decided to recruit guest poster Dr. Douglas J. Long permanently into the DSN ranks. And I do mean permanently. There are only two ways to leave DSN. This…
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That looks terrible on you Dolphin- take it off!
I hate all the stuff growing on whales. It’s just one of those weird personal tics. All those barnacles look annoying and itchy and the whole…
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