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…
How do you figure out how much plastic is in the ocean?
Nobody ever told me that becoming a marine biologist would involve spending four years figuring out how to count. Because, seriously, how hard can counting…
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Dolphins are trying to tell us something
Deep Sea News folks aren’t exactly famous for their love of dolphins (if you haven’t read Dr. M.’s “10 reasons why dolphins are a**holes“, well,…
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Squid Rocket Science
Squids not only swim, they also fly*. In fourteen different published accounts dating back to 1892, squids have been caught in the act of taking…
View More Squid Rocket ScienceTrue facts about Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster
On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami…
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3 Reasons Why You Should Invite a Greenland Shark to Thanksgiving Dinner
This is a guest post from Sizing Ocean Giants team member Leo Gaskins 1) Not the best cook? No worries, Greenland sharks won’t complain! Forgot…
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A whale and a whale shark walk into a bar…
A bar, somewhere in the ocean. A whale shark sits quietly sipping a Krillians. Whale shark (quietly): <sip> Ahh, that’s some good Euphausia right there.…
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Weed of the Week: The Phycologist that Launched a Billion Dollar Industry
I love seaweed. Maybe it’s because I am from California and we are all plant loving hippies or maybe it’s because they’re the underappreciated overlords…
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Feel the zen of the ocean with this coastal current map
I am SO excited that someone finally did this! From the code that brought you this amazing wind map comes this map of surface currents. Look…
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Where has THIS guy been all my life?!
Simply brilliant; I dont know how I only just heard about these, they have millions of views. Check out the rest of his channel here:
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6 ways to help our oceans and look absolutely fabulous doing it
It’s Monday and you know what that means? No…not the day when you try longer than you should to magically make all the e-mails in…
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