The Ancient Ocean of the Dakota Access Pipeline
You pull your old car to the side of the road, slow to a stop and turn the key:...
Category: Pelagic
The Writing on the Sea-Wall: High Water Line
As science communicators, we are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to translate the ramblings of the ivory tower...
Trolling in the deep: from raging rants to support of the strange
Today’s guest post is by Natasha Phillips, a marine biologist and PhD researcher based at Queen’s University Belfast, interested...
The Little Strawberry Squid with the Big Eye
If I were ever to write a Little Golden Book on par with The Poky Little Puppy it would...
This deep-sea jelly looks like something from a dream
A beautiful jelly was just sighted by the Ocean Explorer as they cruise the deep sea near American Samoa live at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov. According...
A 100-year-old mystery blob solved
First, let’s be clear: in the ocean, mucus is king. On land, mucus is tragically confined to various animal...
What are these giant tube-shaped animals showing up in the Azores?
So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I...
Video! The sea slug that looks and swims like a fish
Out there in the open ocean is a nudibranch sea slug that looks like a fish, and for the...
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...
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....