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Ribbon Eel Video Roundup

Featured image photo by Jack Follow, Blue Ribbon Eel 6, https://flic.kr/p/gXbbtG. Available by Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Because my other post today is…

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Alex Warneke September 4, 2017 Children's Book Sea Stories Storytelling

I firmly believe that good science must always be accompanied with good storytelling. Now more than ever, we must connect those around us to the…

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Reef raving revisited: 4 good reasons for fish to glow in the dark

RR Helm February 10, 2017

This is a guest post form Maarten De Brauwer, a PhD candidate at Curtin University. You can find more of amazing work from Maarten on his…

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Meet the New Sharks of 2015

Douglas Long February 12, 2016 Catshark elasmobranch Genetics lanternshark meristics New Species nurse shark sharks taxonomy

The worn and weary phrase “There’s more fish in the sea” isn’t just cold solace for heartbroken saps, but for shark biologists, this means more discoveries…

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TGIF: Subway Car Artificial Reefs!

Holly Bik January 15, 2016 artificial reef Atlantic Ocean Delaware mackerel sea bass subway car tuna

A sunken city of NYC subway cars lives off the coast of Delaware – yep, you read that right. They were sunk there on purpose,…

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Malacology Monthly: Going Deep

Douglas Long December 28, 2015 conchology deep ocean deep sea evolution Gastropod Invertebrate invertebrate paleontology malacology marine biology marine ecology mollusk shell shells seashells Snail

Sub-Neritic Gentrification For November we will be doing some deep thinking about deep-sea mollusks in an attempt to understand the complex history and adaptations of…

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Cephalopods: Masters of W.T.F? – Enough GIFs to Kill a Kraken

Douglas Long December 11, 2015 Chromatophores color change cuttlefish marine biology groovy as hell hunting laughing squid mollusk Octopus squid

With octopus, squid, & cuttlefish, reality is stranger than fiction. Shape-shifting, color-changing, or morphing into a Las Vegas billboard are nothing new for these real-life transformers.…

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Dancing Squat Lobsters of the Deep

Dr. M December 10, 2015 GIF Peter Etnoyer Squat Lobster

From former DSN’s own Peter Etnoyer (posts here) comes a great set of deep-sea GIFS. Among the many revelations of recent studies of Gulf of Mexico deep-sea…

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Five Mind-Blowing Bivalve GIFs That Will Blow Your Mind – Your Blown Mind Won’t Believe #6!

Douglas Long December 7, 2015 bear bivalve Cephalopod Clam cockle cute fruits de mer GIF malacology marine biology mollusk Octopus scallop seafood seashell

Since the dawn of human civilization, much has been written about the sheer adrenaline-pumping excitement of clams, scallops, cockles, but today’s digital age has cranked-up that…

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Top 10 GIFs of Ocean Animals Eating Other Animals

Dr. M December 7, 2015 GIF Predation

1. Cone snail eating whole fish 2. Orca taking a seal 3. California angel shark eating a California horn shark 4. Goblin shark eating a fish 5.…

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