Legend has it that Saint Patrick gave a four-leaf clover to a group of his followers; the fourth leaf put there by God to bring…
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Tag: Hydrothermal Vent
Photoshop Battles with this Image of a Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm
I love that the internet can bring together collectives of people working toward a common goal on something for the greater good. In beauty that…
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Deep-Sea Barnacle Genomics. Because, #DarwinDay
When Darwin got down and dirty with his work on Barnacles (1846-1854), everyone still assumed there was no life at all in the deep sea.…
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These are a few of my favorite species: Paulasterias mcclaini “McClain’s 6-armed fleshy star”
Today is a very exciting day. Indeed, today is one of the best days ever! The next step in my evil science plans for total…
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For Hoff Yeti Crabs Food, Sex, and Birth Determine Living Space At Vents
Within just a few short centimeters the temperature drops from 350˚C to -1.5˚C (692 to 29.3˚F). At 2.6 kilometers deep in the Antarctic Ocean lies the East…
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An Oceanic Ode
This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral…
View More An Oceanic OdeDeep-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…
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From Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute…In the ocean, there are places where it looks like it is snowing. These magical places are near undersea volcanic…
View More TGIF: Marine SnowAnother New Yeti Crab!!??
You heard here first people, another new species of Yeti crab may be out there! Jon Copley just sent this message along. Well hey, a…
View More Another New Yeti Crab!!??Yeti Crab Roundup
Back in 2005, three researchers described and named a very unusual crab from a hydrothermal vent in the Indian Ocean (paper here). The scientists christened…
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