Deep Sea 101: Forbes’ Folly – Evidence of Deep Sea Life Ignored

←Previous Lesson: Early Paradigms and Exploration Edward Forbes spent his life championing a hypothesis whose evidence was flawed and extrapolations unjustified. The idea of a…

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Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales

We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago…

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Darwin Day Repost – Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin And His Beloved Barnacles

This post was based on a talk I gave for Darwin Day last year at the Duke Marine Lab. Reposting in honor of Darwin Day.…

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From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries

Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists in the mid-20th century. From 1833…

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