#2 Genus Osedax (Phylum: Annelida, Class: Polychaeta, Order: Sabellida, Family: Siboglinidae) BONEZ1!! WE WANTZ UR BONEZ!! Perhaps the scariest deep sea creature, Osedax (latin for…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #2: Bone-Devouring Zombie Worms from HellCategory: Organisms
The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!
Fending off a sneak attack by the wily isopod.#9 Bathynomus giganteus (Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Malacostraca, Order: Isopoda, Family: Cirolinidae) Beware the giant isopod. When it…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!Life in the abyss is no protection from bad weather
A new article highlights the really cool work that has come from Ken Smith and Henry Ruhl. Ken’s lab has monitoring a deep-sea abyssal site…
View More Life in the abyss is no protection from bad weatherVirgin Shark Birth
Jennifer Viegas over at Born Animal has a story about virgin animal births (called Parthenogensis) and a video of sharks mating! There was a report…
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Carnival of the Blue #17
CEPHALOPODS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL of this month’s Carnival of the Blue!!! There is much fine tentacled offerings over at the Cephalopodcast. Jason lays it out…
View More Carnival of the Blue #17The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #23 Dumbo Octopus
by Kevin Zelnio Whoever said that Dumbo the Flying Elephant wasn’t real?? He was actually an octopus not an elephant. Dumbo octopuses (Grimpoteuthis sp. shown…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #23 Dumbo OctopusDeepest Fish Ever Filmed
Using a remote lander* with a camera, a UK-Japan team has set a record for filming the deepest fish. The fish is Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a…
View More Deepest Fish Ever FilmedGot your freaky right here
by Peter Etnoyer When it comes to freaky, size matters. The red-eyed gaper Chaunax pictus (shown above) didn’t make the grade for freaky fish…
View More Got your freaky right hereFreaky Fish Contest
Ocean conservation group Oceana announces their online contest for the Freakiest Fish of 2008. All the nominees are for the most part deep sea but…
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