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 sucker for convergent evolution
Recently Chris Mah, that most passionate advocate of all things with pentaradial symmetry (i.e. echinoderms: urchins, starfish etc.), wrote an excellent blog post about how…
View More A sucker for convergent evolutionPlastics expedition departs for North Pacific
My tall-ship-sailing buddies at Sea Education Association are headed out for a special Pacific plastics cruise tomorrow aboard the 134-foot brigantine SSV Robert C. Seamans. (Disclosure: I am…
View More Plastics expedition departs for North PacificOctopus Steals Food and Casually Wrestles Shark
In the video above taken in False Bay, South Africa, a octopus simultaneously holds a shark at bay with one arm while simultaneously wrestling three…
View More Octopus Steals Food and Casually Wrestles SharkThe venerable, yet chronically misidentified, CTD
So you are on research cruise. And in your state of unadulterated science glee you decide that you want to share with the world your…
View More The venerable, yet chronically misidentified, CTDScience Cafe in Fresno CA: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This Monday, I’m giving a talk at the Central Valley Cafe Scientifique. Many thanks to Madhu Katti and Kaberi Kar Gupta for arranging this. And…
View More Science Cafe in Fresno CA: The Great Pacific Garbage PatchCan Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!
Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence. Within ~100 million…
View More Can Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!Watch helplessly from a mussel’s shell as it is slowly & inexorably consumed
This may be the coolest sea star predation video of all time. Watch helplessly from the mussel’s shell as the sea star’s stomach extrudes and…
View More Watch helplessly from a mussel’s shell as it is slowly & inexorably consumedAn ocean full of eddies
I recently found this post of the mean surface currents in the North Atlantic Ocean by @oceanCO2. And for some reason I couldn’t get over…
View More An ocean full of eddiesDon’t talk like a pirate – SING like one
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day – but as you may know, here at Deep Sea News we are partial to a bit of…
View More Don’t talk like a pirate – SING like oneMarine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN
It’s Saturday, 105 degrees in San Diego, I’m 100 yards from the beach, and I am in front of my computer typing away. OH THE…
View More Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN