Shrimp

Biology Crustacean Music

The official anthology of Rick Ross rapping about crustaceans

I generally bow to Dr. M and Alex when it comes to rap music knowledge, but I’m just going to add this little factlet to the…

Organisms

10 Ocean Species Every Man Should Love: Part 1

Dr. M February 21, 2012 Blanket Octopus bourbon Charger cigars Clint Eastwood Dodge Hemi Josey Wales Lemmy manly masculine Men Men Men Motorhead narwhal Pistols Portugese Man-O-Ware Shrimp smoking zooids

Slip into a smoking jacket, pour yourself a glass of bourbon, light a cigar, and enjoy this post on 10 Ocean Species Every Man Should…

Art

How to Make a Shrimp From a Bendy Straw

Kevin Zelnio December 31, 2010 Bendy Straws Make Magazine Plastic Shrimp

In the Land of Awesome there exists people who know how make shrimp out of bendy straws. Click on image to check it out at…

Expeditions New Research Reviews

Bull Patrol: NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED zOMG!

Dr. M August 3, 2010 Bull Patrol Expedition Hydrothermal Vent media New Species press press release Shrimp taxonomy

Inspired by the Are Headlines Hogwash? series at Dr. Carin Bondar’s wonderful blog, the editors at DSN (i.e. Kevin and I) have initiated a news…

Oil Spills

Oil Spill Update July 11, 2010

Dr. M July 11, 2010 BP cleanup corexit Cuba Deepwater Horizon deepwater well Drilling Emergency Relief Well Act Florida Keys Galveston Gulf of Mexico Jindal Lake Pontchartrain NOAA Obama offshore Oil Spill oysters relief well shorebird Shrimp super skimmer Susan Shaw tarball

This one-year projection of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will ruin your day. Oil is now seeping in New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain and tarballs wash ashore in…

Art Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Vessels and Equipment

Behold the Rimicanoe!

Kevin Zelnio May 27, 2010 Biomimetics Canoe Hydrothermal Vent Project S Rimicaris exoculata Shrimp Southern Fried Science

Southern Fried Scientist has finally posted our latest creation. Those follow @sfriedscientist and @kzelnio on twitter may have heard us mention Project S. It is…

Adaptations Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp

Kevin Zelnio April 1, 2010 Alvinocarididae Best of Zelnio Black Smoker Hydrothermal Vent Infrared Mid-Atlantic Ridge Radiation Retina Rhodopsin Rimicaris exoculata Shrimp vision

*Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with…

Adaptations Mating & Reproduction New Research Weird