*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…
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Every Whale Has Its Bone
This one goes out to David from my lab who just got back from 2 months down under in Antarctica and deployed whale bones for…
View More Every Whale Has Its BoneNew Bathyacmaea
This is a new species of Bathyacmaea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Patellogastropoda, Acmaeidae) currently under description by a japanese colleague. I have found hundreds of these individuals…
View More New BathyacmaeaWon’t They Think of the Poor Bone-Eating Worms?
There is a disturbing trend in this BBC news article about the relationship between whaling and carbon. The report comes from a talk at The…
View More Won’t They Think of the Poor Bone-Eating Worms?Reconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All Life
What is the origin story of deep-sea organisms? For decades, we thought shallow coastal waters were the cradle of marine life repeatedly pumping species into…
View More Reconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All LifeMad Taxonomic Skillz Contest II – What Vent Worm Am I?
Clearly, last week’s Cephalopod Beak ID Contest was too easy! So This week’s contest is going to be a little harder. I’m testing you guys…
View More Mad Taxonomic Skillz Contest II – What Vent Worm Am I?The Evolution of Iron-Clad Samurai Snails With Gold Feet
It is told in the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai At the time of the attack on the castle at Shimabara, Tazaki Geki was…
View More The Evolution of Iron-Clad Samurai Snails With Gold FeetRepost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane Seeps
This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! ———————————————————————————————————— This is…
View More Repost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane SeepsNew Expediton Blogs
A couple of new deep-sea expedition blogs to add to your RSS feeds… An excellent and and often funny blog about a recent hadal expedition…
View More New Expediton BlogsPycnogonids, more than spiders of the sea
Much of the earth’s biodiversity lies within the phylum Arthropoda. You are probably aware of many species within the group trilobites, spiders, centipedes, crabs, insects,…
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