First, let’s give a shoutout to these two dudes who found a washed up mooring and, like adults, gave it back to MBARI. Now I…
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This squid won’t stop staring at you
Stop it. Stop staring at me Taonius sp. All the other squids that MBARI featured during Cephalopod week are either cute, athletic, or named after…
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Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.
Recently we at Deep-Sea News have tried to combat misinformation about the presence of high levels of Fukushima radiation and its impact on marine organisms…
View More Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.Better and New Video of the Enigmatic Placental Jellyfish
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has just posted better footage of Deepstaria, The scyphomedusa Deepstaria is certainly odd, with its bag-like appearance, and…
View More Better and New Video of the Enigmatic Placental JellyfishTGIF: Marine Snow
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 SnowThe Deep: Home of BIG TEETH
From the always epically entertaining MBARI Video.
View More The Deep: Home of BIG TEETHThere’s No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
From the MBARI YouTube page: By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over…
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Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking Over
You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way…
View More Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking OverGhostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopus
This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to…
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