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An expedition led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has revealed World War II military weaponry scattered across the seafloor in extensive dumping sites off the coast of Los ...

A new species of deep-sea cucumber has over 100 feet in alternating two or three rows. This means of course that when it plays the This Little Piggy nursery rhyme it needs to repeat it 25 times. The ...

When I first learned about rhizocephalan barnacles I lost my appetite. I was taking a parasitology course, and even though I’d developed a thick skin, something about this insidious creature deeply ...

I’ll be the first to admit I know very little about birds. Looking at a checklist of birds of Newfoundland, and knowing the impressiveness of gannets diving, I am wondering if these are northern ...

A comment on Reddit reminded me of a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because it stems from knowledge and deductive reasoning. The said question requires one ...

This is the second of a two-part post. In the first installment, Kim presented alternatives to this project. This installment is a collaboration between Kim and Miriam. Dr. Kim Martini is a physical ...

Tiger sharks are sort of generalist feeders. And by generalist, I mean they will pretty much eat anything. And by everything, I mean everything. On the more natural side of things, tiger sharks eat ...

I have only seen a hydrothermal vent once, during Dive 73 aboard the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Doc Ricketts. Unlike many deep-sea biologists, I have always been more interested in ...

Magnapinna squids are one of the deep-sea more ethereal creatures. Little is known of these squid as very few have ever been captured, although over the last decade with the increased usage of ...

The internet is abuzz today at the sight of these fleshy-colored grape-sized sea blobs found on Huntington Beach, CA.

If corals in cold water is your thing, then you will be delighted to hear to Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World is now available. It’s yours for the low price of $169. Hopefully you can get ...