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In the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last long

Miriam Goldstein October 29, 2012 Amphipod cabled observatory deep sea Scavenger sixgill shark time lapse VENUS

If you haven’t seen the VENUS deep-sea observatory’s pig-in-the-ocean experiments, you’ve been missing out. I saw them present this work at a conference a couple…

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Adaptations New Research Organisms

Six Gill to Shrimp: We’re Having Pig Tonight!

Kevin Zelnio February 28, 2010 British Columbia Canada Carcass Decomposition deep sea Forensics Scavenger Tunnicliffe

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Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion

Dr. M August 11, 2009 abyss carbon cycle detritus echinoderm fatty acid food web grenadier lipid macrourids marine snow Pacific predator prey rattail Scavenger Station M.trophic

The 285 macrourid fishes, the rattails, whiptails, and grenadiers, are one of, if not the, most abundant fish in the deep. You cannot throw…well anything…without…

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Conferences Fish New Research Organisms

Big Gulpers In The Deep

Kevin Zelnio February 23, 2009 ASLO Baited Camera Traps Best of Zelnio Black Swallower Chiasmodon niger Conference Crustacea Drazen fish Oxygen Minimum Zone Scavenger Snake Mackerel Yeh Zoarcidae

I got the dreaded pop-up of doom as my macbook told me it could not install the latest update because I out of space. So…

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Adaptations Giant Isopod Organisms

From The Desk of Zelnio: Bathynomus giganteus

Kevin Zelnio April 4, 2007 Arthropoda Bathynomus Best of Zelnio Crustacea Eye Giant Isopod Isopoda Scavenger

Bathynomus giganteus (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) You know those cute little roly-poly bugs you found under rocks as a kid? You poke at them and…

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