Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a rainbow of Sharpie colors. Each cup is ...

Osedax worms, or the ‘bone eating’ worms are little soft sacks resembling snotty little flowers. The “bone devourer” is not quite accurate as the worms do not actually feed on the bone mineral, but ...

Basket stars, so named for the dizzying and multi-branching nature of their convoluted arms, often perch atop coral or rocky formations. From this high mount, the basket star cna extends its arms in ...

Howard Sanders began by writing “Specialization” on the whiteboard with his paper introducing the Stability-Time Hypothesis in 1968. He suggested that because the deep sea is monotonous and ...

noun: work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. verb: waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects. The end of 2018 was tough for the ...

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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 ...

David Cassidy, 70’s heartthrob and star of The Partridge Family, died today at age 67. In November of 1970, his hit song, “I Think I love You,” was everywhere on AM radio. It’s one of the first hit ...

Because I haven't written an update on the Ocean Cleanup and Boyan Slat in a while... They deployed a 100-m long prototype that is really 30-year old RO-BOOM technology with some new fancy hardware.

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 ...

Sub-Neritic Gentrification. Deepwater Helmet Shell Galeodea keyteri from 650m depth off Inhaca, Mozambique; photo by D.J. Long/Deep Sea News. For November we will be doing some deep thinking about ...

You will never see the Ninja Lanternshark coming, not because it's dark and elusive, but because you won't be swimming below 1,000 feet deep off the coast of Central America any time soon. Discoveries ...