There’s a fascinating article getting some press this week, all about a growing incidence of an extraordinary bit of animal behaviour in the islands just above the Antarctic circle. In an article in ...

With all the misinformation around the internet here are links to articles that we trust. The following provide credible information about what is actually occurring and/or dispel myths about ...

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 ...

There have been a number of posts at Deep Sea News lately that have attracted intense commentary and a lot of back-channel communication, some of which has been nice, and some, well, not so much. We ...

Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon) is the largest shark, at a magnificent maximum length of 18 meters (59 feet), to ever have dwelled in the oceans. We know primarily about Megalodon’s existence ...

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 ...

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 ...

AAAR! Today is Talk like a Pirate Day. So swill some grog and enjoy this beauty of a post on physical oceanography and piracy in the Arabian Sea. This is a Disney pirate: Note the large clunky ship ...

The “immortal jellyfish” Turritopsis dohrnii (formerly known as Turritopsis nutricula) [1] A species of jelly, Turritopsis dohrnii, is able to cheat death, curling into a ball (signaling the end for ...

I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest pape r, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of all HAI EVERYONE! Second of all – here’s ...

On July 20th, 1963, three scientists sat on a research ship 200 miles south of Woods Hole, MA, waiting for something remarkable. They were nearly 4000m above the seafloor, and using a sounder (similar ...

“Tomopterids are pelagic polycheate (segmented worm) with paddle-like parapodia that propel them through the water column. They are relatively common in the deep mesopelagic, or twighlight zone, and ...