On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami…
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3 Reasons Why You Should Invite a Greenland Shark to Thanksgiving Dinner
This is a guest post from Sizing Ocean Giants team member Leo Gaskins 1) Not the best cook? No worries, Greenland sharks won’t complain! Forgot…
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A whale and a whale shark walk into a bar…
A bar, somewhere in the ocean. A whale shark sits quietly sipping a Krillians. Whale shark (quietly): <sip> Ahh, that’s some good Euphausia right there.…
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Weed of the Week: The Phycologist that Launched a Billion Dollar Industry
I love seaweed. Maybe it’s because I am from California and we are all plant loving hippies or maybe it’s because they’re the underappreciated overlords…
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Feel the zen of the ocean with this coastal current map
I am SO excited that someone finally did this! From the code that brought you this amazing wind map comes this map of surface currents. Look…
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Where has THIS guy been all my life?!
Simply brilliant; I dont know how I only just heard about these, they have millions of views. Check out the rest of his channel here:
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6 ways to help our oceans and look absolutely fabulous doing it
It’s Monday and you know what that means? No…not the day when you try longer than you should to magically make all the e-mails in…
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A Bad Ass Squid Demands A Bad Ass Tattoo
Master beard grower, Richard Newman, shared on the DSN Facebook page his totally amazing tattoo. Yep it’s Magnapinna. I think we can all raise a pint…
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Snails High On Acid Make Poor Choices, Get Eaten By Predators
In humans concentrations of carbon dioxide around 1%, normal is just a less than 0.04%, can make a person drowsy. Like a macroeconomics class. At…
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An amazing image of the elusive big-fin squid
Magnapinna squids are one of the deep-sea more ethereal creatures. Little is known of these squid as very few have ever been captured, although over…
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