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…
This July 4th please enjoy the Explosions of the Ocean
Tomorrow is July 4th. And to celebrate our independence from those tea-taxing-without-representation-people-across-the-pond we Americans will be engaging in our ceremonial blowing up of the stuff.…
View More This July 4th please enjoy the Explosions of the OceanDeep-Sea Mining: This Shit Just Got Real
Perhaps it is easier to think deep-sea mining is something that will happen in the future. Surely the cost and logistics of mining the ocean…
View More Deep-Sea Mining: This Shit Just Got RealAre Jellyfish Immortal?
A species of jelly, Turritopsis dohrnii, is able to cheat death, curling into a ball (signaling the end for most species), only to grow from its own shriveled remains…
View More Are Jellyfish Immortal?The masters of bling, carrier snails
Readers of DSN may think they know my favorite organism. Did you guess the giant isopod or did you guess the giant squid? Those beasties…
View More The masters of bling, carrier snailsThe Hair Metal Guide to the Ocean
Are you ready to rock? ROCK THE OCEAN THAT IS! Then bust out your wailing guitar solos, leopard skin leotards, double bass pedals, and aquanet. Welcome…
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The side effects NOT on the label
The intertidal can be a pretty rough place to call home. You have to deal with what seems like a whole web of trophic levels…
View More The side effects NOT on the labelHuman-sized mystery blob found off the coast of Cuba
On June 20th I received an email: a huge pink blob has been found off the coast of Cuba, and no one can figure out…
View More Human-sized mystery blob found off the coast of CubaEvolving to dive deep
David Aldridge is a phytoplankton-loving marine biology PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. Also the founder and editor of Words in mOcean, a…
View More Evolving to dive deepLimiting the use of bottom trawls in the deep sea
Just received this via email. If your a scientist please go sign. Hi folks, I am sending you this special plea to ask for your help in …
View More Limiting the use of bottom trawls in the deep seaTGIF – Magical Quintana Roo
Every year, the world’s largest fish gathers to feed (and feed, and FEED) in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo in eastern Yucatan, in numbers larger…
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