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…
Want to catch a shark. Got to do a shark dance.
So this past weekend, some of the other Deeplings and I left the DSN lair to party in the city where the heat is on.…
View More Want to catch a shark. Got to do a shark dance.Video of the Love Child of a Macaron and a Snork
I wrote recently of the fascinatingly bizarre Dicopia antirrhinum, a predatory tunicate of the deep sea. The authors of the study describing this strange beastie sent…
View More Video of the Love Child of a Macaron and a SnorkThe slow strangling of marine science careers, as the Government Shutdown drags on
This isn’t the type of humor we’re used to at DSN – the news these past few weeks has been some new brand of twisted…
View More The slow strangling of marine science careers, as the Government Shutdown drags onWhere are all the ladies at?
Last week 70-odd of the world’s whale shark researchers converged on Atlanta for the 3rd International Whale Shark Conference. It was an unusual meeting in…
View More Where are all the ladies at?5 Reasons Why Great White Sharks are the Blackberry of the Seas
The following post is authored by Leo Gaskins as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. 1. They…
View More 5 Reasons Why Great White Sharks are the Blackberry of the Seas6 Reasons to Supersize
The following post is authored by Caroline Schanche as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. For those who…
View More 6 Reasons to SupersizeJellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”
Why send jellies to space? Well, because it’s awesome (true for anything in space), but mostly because of little crystals jellies keep in their bodies,…
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Squittle Day PSA
Here ye! Here Ye! Today marks the day in which we raise our glasses to all that is good in the world. Squid and Cuttlefish.…
View More Squittle Day PSAThe Eeyore of the Sea
The following post is authored by Catherine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. Sixty million times.…
View More The Eeyore of the SeaM31: Livin’ the Life Aquatic
As some of you may or may not know, starting November 12th I will be joining the team of Mission 31. This historic expedition, lead…
View More M31: Livin’ the Life Aquatic