TGIF: Giant Isopods
Giant Isopods Ate My Well-Known Brand of Corn Chip They will attack you when your sleeping! Everything is better when narrated by Sir David Attenborough...Posted on March 7, 2008 4:37 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
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Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Giant Isopods
Posted on March 7, 2008 4:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pretty In Pink Isopods
It truly is the year of the Giant Isopod. Questionable Content has these great T-shirts in a variety of sizes for about $20 including shipping. Hopefully, they will send me an XXL (yeah I'm a big boy) for "review"....Posted on January 7, 2008 6:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Cloverfield Monster Is An Abomination From The Deep
I've admittedly been hooked on Cloverfield since I saw the trailer (bottom). Can't say why really as I typically hate monster movies and huge internet hype translates into festering heaps of movies (e.g. Snakes on a Plane). Rick Macpherson is...Posted on January 3, 2008 6:57 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Isopod Love Song
Kevin Zelnio is at the top of my list for musicians singing about invertebrates and the deep sea. The competition is small but Kevin is king. Unfortunately, Kevin has some stiff competition. A one man band, Pagan Wanderer Lu,...Posted on December 14, 2007 4:38 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why is The Giant Isopod Giant?
Kevin's wonderful post on the Giant Isopod inspired me to post on a topic I have long pondered. Frequent readers of DSN know that I am fond of Sylvia Earle and the topic of body size. Honestly, it is...Posted on April 4, 2007 8:29 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From The Desk of Zelnio: Bathynomus giganteus
Bathynomus giganteus (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) You know those cute little roly-poly bugs you found under rocks as a kid? You poke at them and they curl up into a little ball? Well, magnify that times 1000, take away...Posted on April 4, 2007 11:53 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
GIANT ISOPODS!
Via Akeakamai, I found this gem of a video from JAMSTEC's Shinkai 6500. The video shows several typical scavenging organisms, crabs, eels, and GIANT ISOPODS (Bathynomus giganteus), feeding on what appears to be a sizeable fish (maybe tuna). For...Posted on February 19, 2007 10:58 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ARCHIVE: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #7 Most Deep-Sea Organisms Are Miniatures of Their Shallow Water Relatives
In one of the earliest papers on the deep-sea fauna, Mosely (1880, p.593) noted, "Some animals appear to be dwarfed by deep-sea conditions." Almost a century later, Hessler (1974) noted that "individuals of certain taxa are routinely so small...Posted on December 20, 2006 7:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
