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World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video

Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…

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Nerve Toxins In The Deep

Dr. M March 23, 2009 Alfred Hitchcocks algae benthic California deep sea diatom Disturbance domoic acid Environmental Issues flux memory loss neurotoxic oyster particles poisoning sediment trap shellfish surface production The Birds

Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of…

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DSN On Your iPhone

Dr. M March 16, 2009 deep sea iphone

Although KZ and Peter tease me about my iPhone (they secretly want one), I have today released DSN optimized for your iPhone. It now will…

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New Website

Dr. M March 16, 2009 deep sea Giant Isopod Giant Squid Mollusca Organisms Research Seamount submarine webpage

My new personal research website is now up. If you have some free time head over and take a look around. I have everything about…

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Warfare Ecology

Dr. M March 12, 2009 anthropogenic biological and chemical weapons conservation deep sea ecologist economics energy energy flows Environmental Issues Eugene Odum famous ecologist marine conservation Organisms policy Savannah River Plant tactical oil spills war warfare

Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors…

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So You Want to Be A Deep-Sea Biologist?

Dr. M March 2, 2009 advisors career deep sea deep-sea biologist faculty member first author full professor google scholar graduate school GRE Ivy League part scientist Party School ph.d.Research scientific product Scientist!

In the past, a few readers, interns, random undergraduates, and a curious public have asked all three of us here at DSN “How do you…

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Scientists Solve The Mystery Of Why This Fish Is So Freakin’ Crazy

Dr. M February 23, 2009 Aquarium Barrel-eye deep sea Eye fish MBARI ROV video

The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. The fish’s tubular eyes are capped…

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The 10 Greatest Web Videos of Marine Invertebrates

Dr. M February 22, 2009 Annelida Barnacle Cephalopod Coral deep sea Echinodermata feeding fish Giant Isopod girlfriends Invertebrate Octopus puppies rotifer salmon sex shark sponge video

In no certain order… 10. Those barnacles just ain’t feeding! This is red hot barnacle copulation! Turn the lights down low, everything’s goin’ to be…

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She said spawning

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I’m really enjoying The Oyster’s Garter these days. Miriam Goldstein keeps me updated with important nature stories like “When sponges ruled the Earth” 635 million…

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Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time

Dr. M February 11, 2009 Adaptations deep sea eyes fish spookfish taxonomy

No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong…