Deep-Sea Barnacle Genomics. Because, #DarwinDay
When Darwin got down and dirty with his work on Barnacles (1846-1854), everyone still assumed there was no life...
Category: Habitats
Where is the best place to put your ocean cleanup device? Not where currently proposed.
You might think that to clean up the problem of plastic in the ocean, you should place your cleanup...
TGIF: Subway Car Artificial Reefs!
A sunken city of NYC subway cars lives off the coast of Delaware – yep, you read that right....
New Video of Giant Squid Surfaces
Video of a very large squid swimming near a dock made the rounds last week across many social media streams....
Malacology Monthly: Going Deep
Sub-Neritic Gentrification For November we will be doing some deep thinking about deep-sea mollusks in an attempt to understand...
Ninja Lanternshark: the New Shark Species You Will Never See Coming
You will never see the Ninja Lanternshark coming, not because it’s dark and elusive, but because you won’t be...
Cephalopods: Masters of W.T.F? – Enough GIFs to Kill a Kraken
With octopus, squid, & cuttlefish, reality is stranger than fiction. Shape-shifting, color-changing, or morphing into a Las Vegas billboard are...
Go home Dinoflagellate, you’re drunk
Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her...
Dancing Squat Lobsters of the Deep
From former DSN’s own Peter Etnoyer (posts here) comes a great set of deep-sea GIFS. Among the many revelations of recent...
My favorite deep-sea GIFs
Comb Jelly, Phylum Ctenophora The giant deep-sea jellyfish, Stygiomedusa gigantea Siphonophore Blanket Octopus, Tremoctopus sp. Dumbo Octopus, Grimpoteuthis Vampire...