"Bizarre" Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters

Invertebrates join the ranks of tool using animals...

For more check out the National Geographic article.

lab questions number 2

1. In each lab I used a different tool to figure out what the answer was. I used a caliper to measure the length of the blood splatter and I used math formula to figure out which soil was from the suspect!
2. My approach is different, I used to go into it complaining and do not excited and now I think there fun. I am more confident now because I have done it more than once and I know how to check my answer to make sure it's correct.

lab questions number 1

1. Different observations help because if you just look one at thing you might be missing something else and if you look with more detail then you might find things you wouldn't' see otherwise. Hearing one thing and automatically assuming its something isn't' good, you want to listen to it at least 3 times.
2. It's hard to be precise when your not sure exactly what the answer is and you have to guess. You have to use you best knowledge to decide when your guessing and be as precise as you can be. It affects the confidence because then you might not know exactly the answer your just guessing but you think your right from the information you have and it makes you guess less confident because you don't have notes to back it up except what you think.
3. You can rely on known data when things look the same with the same numbers or visually look the same. If they look different then you will need to do math to figure out whether they are the same or not if you cannot tell by looking. The difference is whether you can just tell by glancing or by digging in deeper.

Australian dives face-first into deadly peanut-sized jellyfish

An Australian man was fighting for his life on Friday after he dived face-first into a venomous jellyfish the size of a peanut in waters off north-east Australia.

Full article here.

Timelapse of swarming monster worms and sea stars devouring baby seal

For those of you with scientific curiosity that veers toward the morbid, you can add this video from the BBC to your "cute animals eating other cute animals" file. Super cool and fascinating slice of sea life.

A whale of an appetite

Turns out some fin whales double their weight while bringing in krill to eat. The pic on the left illustrates how they do it. To get a better description of the process and to find out the particulars check out the article to find out more.

Cool New Deap Sea Photos

Came across some far out pictures in the image gallery from the website of the Census of Marine Life like this awesome sea cucumber. The site has all kinds of great documentation of sea life. Check it out!

Jellyfish on CreatureCast!!!

Here's a couple more pics from articles on the CreatureCast blog that you might enjoy. The first is about the stinging mechanisms of Cnidarians, a group of stinging creatures like jellfish. The second is about hiding submarines beneath jellyfish.

Barnacles

A great video of adaptive physiology for creatures that are stuck to rocks on the ocean floor. From the awesome blog CreatureCast.

Mating barnacles from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.

Octopus Hiding in Seaweed

Cool video of an octopus using seaweed to try to camouflage itself. Love how these guys propel themselves around the ocean floor.

DeEp SeA eXpLoReR rObErT bAlLaRd

Really interesting if your doing things related to the Biology geology physics or chemistry of the ocean :)

Enormous Jellyfish Sink Japanese Fishing Boat

Great article from yesterday's news.

Underwater town breaks antiquity record

Cool article on a recent discovery of the oldest underwater town ever found.

Underwater town breaks antiquity record - life - 22 October 2009 - New Scientist

And a link to some video of the team exploring from the BBC.

Sylvia Earle-Oceanographer

This is a cool video

Pacific Ocean 'dead zone' in Northwest may be irreversible

An article from the LA Times reports that...

Oxygen depletion that is killing sea life off Oregon and Washington is probably caused by evolving wind conditions from climate change, rather than pollution, one oceanographer warns.

Read the full story here.

Giant Ocean Sunfish

Another cool TED video, this time of a great speaker talking about the sunfish...

What are we supposed to do?

Creatures of the Deep!

Here's an awesome video of some amazing sea creatures.