Hermit crab from a cold seep site sampled during seeps voyage on RV Tangaroa. Note the seep-associated bacterial filaments on its claws (furry-looking covering). Image…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (02/23/07)Author: Dr. M
Deep-Sea Sharks in Red
Scientists added several species of deep sea sharks on Thursday to the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) endangered Red List due to overfishing.
View More Deep-Sea Sharks in RedGenome For An Endosymbiont Woes
On the 15th, I reported about the recently sequenced genome of R. magnifica. One of the coauthors is not pleased with the papers outcome. Actually,…
View More Genome For An Endosymbiont WoesBiggest Squid Ever! Part 2
Here are the pictures I promised yesterday of the new catch… From Dominion Post…MONSTROUS CATCH: A colossal squid, weighing about 450kg, was caught by a…
View More Biggest Squid Ever! Part 2Biggest Squid Ever!
Sweet Jesus! Several news agencies are reporting that New Zealand fisherman in the Ross Sea caught the LARGEST SQUID EVER FOUND. It’s not Architeuthis dux,…
View More Biggest Squid Ever!Books of the Ocean, One Accurate and One Not. Pt. II
I asked Crissy Huffard, a cephalopod biologist, to look over Volume 3 (No. 164 of 307) of Haggis-On-Whey’s World of Unbelievable Brilliance: Animals of the…
View More Books of the Ocean, One Accurate and One Not. Pt. IIIs That a Blind Crab in Your Pocket?
From stuff.co.nz… Nothing gets National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research scientist Kareen Schnabel’s pulse racing quite like deep-sea crustaceans. Oddly creatures of the deep…
View More Is That a Blind Crab in Your Pocket?GIANT ISOPODS!
Via Akeakamai, I found this gem of a video from JAMSTEC’s Shinkai 6500. The video shows several typical scavenging organisms, crabs, eels, and GIANT ISOPODS…
View More GIANT ISOPODS!No Fish, No Cry…
Why no cry? Because the government is picking up our paycheck! To further prove the economic futility of a deep-sea fishery. Out of AAAS in…
View More No Fish, No Cry…Offshore Oil Deposit Holds Out on the Human Race
This week’s post, There is Plenty of Oil, generated a heated discussion about the finer points of peak oil and oil reserves. In line with…
View More Offshore Oil Deposit Holds Out on the Human Race