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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Readers of DSN may think they know my favorite organism. Did you guess the giant isopod or did you guess the giant squid? Those beasties are truly fantastic. Large and dwelling in the deep oceans, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditionally, “commodore” is the title for any officer assigned to command more than one ship at a time, even temporarily, much as “captain” is the traditional title for the commanding officer of a ...