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Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens) 22 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
Question: What’s better than famed ichthyologist Milton Love masquerading as a hand puppet in a rockfish rap video? Answer: Not much. Barotrauma can be a real beezy. Luckily we, and those fabulous lit...
How horseshoe crabs may have saved your life 22 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
During my first year of grad school I conducted a jailbreak– a fellow grad student and I snuck into the Invertebrate Zoology lab and freed all the horseshoe crabs. I wish we’d know then that we droppe...
Breaking News: Dangerous and costly jelly washing ashore in Ireland by the thousands 22 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
Mauve stinger jelly Pelagia noctiluca, image source: Wikipedia According to the Facebook group The Big Jellyfish Hunt, as of today at 2:00 PM EST the mauve stinger jelly Pelagia noctiluca is washing a...
TGIM – Pufferfish can sculpt, what’s your excuse? 19 Aug 2013 | 08:36 am
Some things are too cool to wait until Friday for the TGIF tag. Check out this spectacular footage of male Torquigener sp. pufferfish in Japan, making nests to attract females. Thats one of the most e...
TGIF: “Okeanos” – Marine Life & Modern Dance 17 Aug 2013 | 03:33 am
True story: I only found out about this dance troupe because one of my collaborators sat next to the dancer who plays the octopus on the plane. And because of these serendipitous circumstances, I brin...
The Deep-sea footprint of Deepwater Horizon 15 Aug 2013 | 03:17 am
The title speaks for itself, but damn, look at these figures! Last week in PLoS ONE, cool kids Montagna et al. (2013) showed some rather dramatic results from environmental monitoring focused on deep-...
Oceanography for Everyone – The OpenCTD 15 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
The CTD is an amazing instrument that has allowed oceanographers to explore the ocean interior. By measuring only three variables: conductivity, temperature and pressure; scientists have gained vast a...
The landscape of a sea urchin 14 Aug 2013 | 03:35 am
I’ve long thought of echinoderms, a group that includes sea urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers, to be among the most alien-like animals. I did not, however, think of them as their own little alien w...
Recipe for a Sharknado 10 Aug 2013 | 06:37 am
While we here at Deep Sea News utterly disliked the Discovery Channel fiction-presented-as-fact documentary “Megalodon” we couldn’t help but love SyFy’s “fiction-presented-as-campy-AWESOME” that was S...
Sharks are overrated, lets talk about their microbiome 9 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
Yes, like humans (all other animals on Earth), sharks have a gut microbiome too. Everyone’s just been way too busy talking about all that Megalodon crap to think about this *real* and much cooler scie...
