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 Deepling Halloween
Warning: When trick or treating by the DSN lair this Halloween…..Beware of our Kraken.
View More A Deepling HalloweenParasites aren’t just for biologists, this wave eats other waves
As the winds blow across the vast oceans they create a symphony of waves, whose pitch may range from ripples to rogues. Eventually all waves…
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Weed of the Week: Killer Costumes
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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Fishful Thinking: Five Reasons why Mermaids Can’t Physically Exist
This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral…
View More Fishful Thinking: Five Reasons why Mermaids Can’t Physically ExistAccidental Parasite Week continues: the Oarfish edition
We didn’t mean to make this week all about parasites, honest. It just happened that way. Rebecca wrote a thing, and then I – being…
View More Accidental Parasite Week continues: the Oarfish editionThe Reese’s Cup Parasite That Hangs Out In Octopus Kidneys
Scientists currently know of 112 species who’s preferred habitat is the renal sac of a cephalopod. Actually, each species prefers a different kind of cephalopod—Broadclub…
View More The Reese’s Cup Parasite That Hangs Out In Octopus KidneysI’ll see your horrifying crab barnacle and raise you a heart eel
This was originally posted at alistairdove.com June 21, 2010. To see another bizarre parasitic relationship, check out Rebecca Helm’s recent piece on the marvelous world…
View More I’ll see your horrifying crab barnacle and raise you a heart eelReturn of the Wood Fall
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View More Return of the Wood FallAwesomely gross Oarfish Necropsy
Last week, two Oarfish were found beached on the California coast. This subsequently set the internet ablaze with conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths. But the…
View More Awesomely gross Oarfish NecropsyThis may be the ocean’s most horrifying monster (and you’ve probably never heard of it)
When I first learned about rhizocephalan barnacles I lost my appetite. I was taking a parasitology course, and even though I’d developed a thick skin, something…
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