The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #5 Barreleye Fish
#5 Species from the family Opisthoproctidae (Phylum: Chordata, Class: Actinopterygii, Order: Osmeriformes) These fish are so cool they could be invertebrates. First is that lovely…
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The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #7 Predatory Tunicates
#7: Megalodicopia hians (Phylum: Chordata, Class: Ascidiacea , Order: Phlebobranchia, Family: Octacnemidae) This tunicate post is dedicated to Miriam. Those invertebrate sacs are one of…
The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #8 Red Lure Jellyfish
#8: Erenna sp. (Phylum: Cnidaria, Class: Hydrozoa, Order: Siphonophorae, Family:Agalmatidae ) Roxanne..You don’t have to put on the red light..Those days are over…You don’t have…
Top 5 Ways to Pimp your Google Earth
by Peter Etnoyer There’s a lot of anticipation surrounding the Google Ocean project, but so far, we’re all still waiting. Meanwhile, applications are bubbling up…
It's Growing…the Blogosphere is GROWING…BWAHAHAHAA
Probably, in response to all the trash talk I’ve been dishing out, pontificating on the superiority of Molluks to echinoderms, Dr. Echinoderm himself started a…
It’s Growing…the Blogosphere is GROWING…BWAHAHAHAA
Probably, in response to all the trash talk I’ve been dishing out, pontificating on the superiority of Molluks to echinoderms, Dr. Echinoderm himself started a…
Are There None Among You Brave Enough?
To take our knitting challenge? Or are you waiting for us to raise the stakes a little? To refresh your memory, I challenged knitting readers…
Best of DSN 2007
Best Photo (Ansel Adams On Ship Award): Again in the peace loving, utopia that is DSN…we are all winners. International Polar Year Scaly Foot Radiolaria…
The Cloverfield Monster Is An Abomination From The Deep
I’ve admittedly been hooked on Cloverfield since I saw the trailer (bottom). Can’t say why really as I typically hate monster movies and huge internet…
Saba joins the Deep-sea Club
The latest diving expedition was funny because our unofficial job was to help the Saba join the “deep-sea club”. The plan was to collect gorgonians and crustaceans down to 200m using a nifty little robot from Seabotix launched over the side of a local lobster boat.