You may never heard of LSDG (although some of you may have heard of LSD but I make no judgement here) but a lot scientific…
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Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted BenthosRotting Lamprey Implications
This video from Nature Video Channel on Youtube is complimentary to a recent study showing “… that certain body features rot away before others –…
View More Rotting Lamprey Implications‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor Animals
Oil and gas extraction is pervasive among the coasts of the world. In many areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast…
View More ‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor AnimalsGreat Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic
An area the size of a coffee table on the deep-sea floor would yield hundreds of species. A few species would dominate with numbers in…
View More Great Abyssal Diversity Among the MicroscopicRepost: 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 SeepsWalruses, Like Other Marine Mammals, Are Disgusting Little Perverts
NSFW or your local aquarium. It should come as no surprise by now that marine mammals are foul little nymphomaniacs. Utterly horrendous how he just…
View More Walruses, Like Other Marine Mammals, Are Disgusting Little PervertsPycnogonids, 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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At this year’s National Association for Biology Teachers conference, Steve Haddock from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, spoke on deep ocean habitats. The National…
View More Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile SurviveWhy Are There No Super Whales?
The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger? The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling. To appreciate…
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