2008 Presidential County Election Results. Map from New York Times. Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a ...

This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral ecology of pinnipeds. She is also author ...

In the past, a few readers, interns, random undergraduates, and a curious public have asked all three of us here at DSN “How do you become a deep-sea biologist?” I write this from the perspective of ...

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 ...

Dr. Craig R. McClain received his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and conducted postdoctoral work at the University of New Mexico and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He has ...

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 ...

The latest viral video is from the sewer under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. The mysterious creatures found are nothing short of disgusting and spectacular. This video has made its way to Video Sift ...

The real Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo by Miriam Goldstein, 2010 EX1006 cruise. I would like to move beyond mythbusting. I give a lot of public talks about my research on plastic trash in the ...

On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi ...

Screen cap from one of the only pyrosome videos out there (see the end of this post). I was living in Africa the first time I saw a pyrosome, and I nearly cried. I was doing research on plankton, ...

This story starts with my research team currently deploying alligators* (3 total, 2 – 2.5 meters in length) at three different sites 2000 meters deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The experiment is to ...

There are all kinds of reasons why Paulo Bonifácio and Lénaïck Menot have nerd clout. There is, of course, the fact that they just described and named 17 new species of polychaete worm. That is 17 new ...