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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 ...
Treehugger recently posted 10 Reasons Why Dolphins Are Undeniably Awesome. This is all nice and well but this does overlook some key aspects of dolphins that should be recognized. Good luck trying to ...
Exploring the depths of the ocean reveals a fascinating array of life forms, showcasing the incredible adaptability of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to high-pressure environments. Even in ...
As failure continues to plague the Ocean Cleanup, the multi-million dollar venture still hasn't collected plastic. Was this all easily avoidable? Yes.
If we were to accept a life-centered theory of environmental ethics, a profound reordering of our moral universe would take place. We would begin to look at the whole of the Earth’s biosphere in a new ...
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 ...
Solar eclipse. From Wikimedia commons. 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 ...
You will be probably shocked by what a pufferfish skeleton looks like.
My very first post at Deep Sea News was a tongue in cheek look at how much we don’t know about the largest of all 28,000-ish species of fishes, the whale shark, Rhincodon typus. Since 2006 I’ve been ...
When whales die and sink to their watery graves, they bring to the seafloor bones rich in those fatty lipids. Thousands of bone-eating females, each just few millimeters high, will infest a whale ...
Some animals only have one opening, a mouth anus. This is list of those animals and their story.