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Category: Carnivals & Link Love
While Deep Sea News is still preparing our new home, spackling the cracks, painting the walls, sanitizing the fridge, throwing out the empties form the last tenant's going away party, unpacking the boxes and otherwise getting settled in, other people...
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Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 8:08 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Deep Sea Music
Just another lazy friday afternoon. I don't know about you, but i felt more relaxed after listening to that, almost sleepy. Maybe you need a little sting to wake you up after that? (below the fold)...
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Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:53 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Critters
Well not everything technically but copepods do. You may see poop but I see the beginning of a long happy process that ends on the deep-sea floor with an animal and a full tummy. Hat tip to Scribal Terror for...
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Posted by CR McClain at 9:25 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Sometimes pictures are too cool to wait for Friday. My friend Tom K. sent these along for my enjoyment and now yours. The first is a close up of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, where you can clearly the ring...
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Posted by CR McClain at 1:56 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biodiversity
I like things in the deep! I think about them when I sleep. It does not matter if they're red or blue, swim or crawl. Because I am banking my career or whether they're big or small! Seriously though if...
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Posted by CR McClain at 1:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Critters
(image credit: Birgitte Wilms, National Geographic) (image credit: David Doubilet, National Geographic) National Geographic says it best, "Perpetually pouting with vermilion lips and probing with a hornlike proboscis, the shortnose batfish (Ogcocephalus nasutus) is not known for its grace. Most...
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Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 4:14 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Critters
...it's a sea demon! Actually its a pteropod, a shell-less gastropod, and even crazier it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite....
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Posted by CR McClain at 4:12 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Archaeology, Sociology, & History
From BBC News: "A lobster that could be up to 100-years-old has been handed to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth by a local fisherman. The crew of the fishing boat named the lobster Mad Jack and discovered it weighed...
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Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 8:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks