Dolphin Woo
Thanks to Cara Santa Maria for bringing this to my attention Can’t stop laughing
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Extraordinary dolphin footage
In my inbox today was this video of a remarkable bit of animal behaviour captured on video. It shows the famous manta night dive in Hawai’i interrupted by a dolphin, which seems to solicit help from a...
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New field blog: Imaging the Arctic
Art and science. Their paths don’t always cross, but when they do the results can be absolutely stunning. And this is exactly why I am highlighting the wonderful new collaboration by scientist Kristin...
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Evolving to dive deep
David Aldridge is a phytoplankton-loving marine biology PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. Also the founder and editor of Words in mOcean, a website dedicated to...
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How much urine can a Kaiju produce? And other fun information
The response to the Kaiju post has been amazing and of course everyone has suggested alterations to the calculations. For background, biologists know that much of an animal’s biology, everything from...
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Breaking Baleen: If Walter While was Willy the Whale
Ever since I first saw Breaking Bad, I’ve been kind of obsessed with Cancer and Crystal Meth. (Legal Disclaimer: only the chemistry of Crystal Meth, and only in theory). As Walter White knows, cancer...
View ArticleHow the Whale Got His Throat and Other Musings by a Nubbly Human
The following post is authored by Catharine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. Adapted from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Long,...
View ArticleTGIF – Tusk tusk…
…that’s a lot of scrimshaw. Video doing the rounds this week of some walruses hauled out at Point Lay Alaska. No biggie, right? Oh yeah, Biggie. Big-time Biggie. That’s because it isn’t ten or even a...
View Article6 Reasons to Supersize
The following post is authored by Caroline Schanche as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. For those who have seen elephant seals up close and...
View ArticleA whale and a whale shark walk into a bar…
A bar, somewhere in the ocean. A whale shark sits quietly sipping a Krillians. Whale shark (quietly): <sip> Ahh, that’s some good Euphausia right there. <sip> A baleen whale explodes...
View ArticleDolphins are trying to tell us something
Deep Sea News folks aren’t exactly famous for their love of dolphins (if you haven’t read Dr. M.’s “10 reasons why dolphins are a**holes“, well, you haven’t lived!). But truth be told, our contrarian...
View ArticleThe Tiny Swimming Pigs of Pig Beach
On a largely uninhabited island (a cay) in Bahamas, the chief residents are less than a two-dozen feral pigs. The island is now more lovingly referred to as Pig Island. The origins of these island...
View ArticleAn Oceanic Ode
This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral ecology of pinnipeds. She is also author...
View ArticleThe question you should have asked about Fukushima, but probably didn’t.
The 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear fiasco was a disaster that is still affecting Japan. But it also raised an onslaught of questions about the potential dangers of the leaked radiation back here in...
View ArticleThe Plight of the Irrawaddy
“I think it’s important to establish, first of all, that Irrawaddy dolphins are jerks to study.” Not exactly the preface I was expecting. “One of my esteemed colleagues describes them as, ‘cute, but...
View ArticleFeces Friday: Marine Edition
Here’s your recap of the top excretion-related news in the past few weeks, and what it means to our ocean world: Mo’ Whales, Mo’ Poop, Mo’ Plankton, Mo’ Whales… Several recent studies emphasize the...
View ArticleThe Immigrant
Because when you are a polar bear living in the 21st century, the struggle is indeed real. Props: Omar Malik, Monte Kawahara, Ben Goldfarb, Geoff Giller, Mwanzaa Brown.
View ArticleWhales Can Only Taste Salty
Five basic types of taste exist: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. Most people are familiar with all of these except the last, umami, which is best described as a pleasant savory taste. These...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, and Cryptozoology
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, despite what cryptozoologists may be telling you. The internet is a double-edged sword of enlightenment and ignorance. It has the capacity to educate...
View ArticleThe Antarctic is a rough neighbourhood
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...
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