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Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on the Porcupine Abyssal...
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Deep-Sea News, Now More Fashionable Than Ever
Let’s face it Deep-Sea News is a triple threat of colours, couture and coiffure. Finally, the fashion world is catching on. Of all the planets in our solar system, ours alone is covered in a...
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Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life
[googlemap lat="48.532975799741635" lng="-123.01666259765625" width="400px" height="300px" zoom="11" type="G_HYBRID_MAP"]48.532976,-123.016663[/googlemap] This week finds me for the first time in...
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Sea Pigs
Dr. Mah direct quoate, "Small snails (genus Stilapex) that work their way into the body wall and suck on their juices!! So, what's weirder then sea pigs??? SEA PIG SNAIL PARASITES!!!!" Photo from...
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Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
Photo courtesy of MBARI. Coryphaenoides acrolepis in Monterey Canyon. Rattail fish are caught and sold under the more palatable name, "grenadier." However, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch...
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Biogeography of the Deep Sea
“There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago recognized the deep homothermal sea “As...
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Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the...
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Great 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 the 10-100′s. Yet most would be rare represented by a single lone...
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Flesh Eating Sponges?
Most sponges, inspiration for dish cleaners and mess absorbers, feed by filtering water through those many holes and channels. Their scientific name, Porifera, literally means pore bearer. The channels...
View ArticleThis Deep-Sea Predator is the Love Child of a Macaron and a Snork
In the shallow waters where sunlight penetrates, life is easy because food abounds. In the deep sea, life sucks because food is scarce. In landscape of the oceans, shallow water is a suburban enclave...
View ArticleMH370 and the proverbial haystack.
When does an analogy become useless? How about when it’s less exaggerated than the actual facts being analogized? Take the oft-used “needle in a haystack” analogy. That one has been trotted out many...
View ArticleExperience the Life of the Deep Gulf of Mexico in 20 Videos
As we prepare for our 2019, Gulf of Mexico, Deep-Sea, Wood-Fall Collection, Research Cruise Spectacular from February 11th-24th, enjoy these videos from our 2017 expedition. Also follow us on...
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Sea Pigs
Dr. Mah direct quoate, "Small snails (genus Stilapex) that work their way into the body wall and suck on their juices!! So, what's weirder then sea pigs??? SEA PIG SNAIL PARASITES!!!!" Photo from...
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Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
Photo courtesy of MBARI. Coryphaenoides acrolepis in Monterey Canyon. Rattail fish are caught and sold under the more palatable name, "grenadier." However, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch...
View ArticleBiogeography of the Deep Sea
“There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago recognized the deep homothermal sea “As...
View ArticleCataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great 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 the 10-100’s. Yet most would be rare represented by a single...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flesh Eating Sponges?
Most sponges, inspiration for dish cleaners and mess absorbers, feed by filtering water through those many holes and channels. Their scientific name, Porifera, literally means pore bearer. The...
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