Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

DeEp SeA eXpLoReR rObErT bAlLaRd

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

Monday, November 2, 2009

Enormous Jellyfish Sink Japanese Fishing Boat

Great article from yesterday's news.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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