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…
A Bad Ass Squid Demands A Bad Ass Tattoo
Master beard grower, Richard Newman, shared on the DSN Facebook page his totally amazing tattoo. Yep it’s Magnapinna. I think we can all raise a pint…
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Snails High On Acid Make Poor Choices, Get Eaten By Predators
In humans concentrations of carbon dioxide around 1%, normal is just a less than 0.04%, can make a person drowsy. Like a macroeconomics class. At…
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An amazing image of the elusive big-fin squid
Magnapinna squids are one of the deep-sea more ethereal creatures. Little is known of these squid as very few have ever been captured, although over…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage Patch
Deepling emeritus, Miriam Goldstein, is a science rock star. My science crush on her only deepens after watching her completely explode TeX Oslo. Miriam is all…
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TGIF: Emoji Dick
This is either the awesomeest or stupidest thing ever: Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese…
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Unknown monsters from the deep
Recently, author Ryan Lockwood sent me a copy of his new book Below. This fictional piece follows the story of professional diver Will Sturman and marine biologist…
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Weed of the Week: The Rihanna Hypothesis Revisited
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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As I was writing this, initial damage reports from the Philippines were still coming in. It looks like the damage from the storm is really bad, many…
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Hipster bacteria hate the tropics (it’s too mainstream)
Terrestrial biologists have it easy (especially those that work in the tropics) – they can just book a plane ticket and wander around the forest,…
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The force of natural selection towards parasitic lifestyle is powerful, because it has arisen so many times in every imaginable lineage. For this Halloween and…
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