“Most of us can’t imagine what it will be like when the whole ocean system collapses,” says Colin Angus, CTO and cofounder Open Ocean Robotics, a tech startup that makes autonomous boats. The... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 months 2 weeks ago • 295 views • 8:44

MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months ago • 351 views • 3:16

"... Sharks wouldn’t be known for their fierce teeth today if it weren’t for their ancient scales..."

posted by ant 9 months 1 week ago • 13 views • 3:59

Jellyfish have long been the subjects of human fascination since the beginning of sea exploration: with today's ROVs, previously unseen jellies have now been observed. These are five of the most fascinating... continue reading

posted by newtboy 9 months 4 weeks ago • 353 views • 11:29

YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 2 weeks ago • 381 views • 8:22

YouTube description: We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 11 views • 7:58

The Insane Biology of: The Octopus

posted by BSR 1 year 6 months ago • 911 views • 21:27

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 7 months ago • 506 views • 9:10

The Royal Ocean Film Society https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWq-qJSudqKrzquTVep9Jwg/videos

posted by BSR 2 years ago • 76 views • 7:14

Cuz the ocean is weird.

posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 318 views • 10:15

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 169 views • 57 secs

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 876 views • 3:16

Warmer Pacific temperatures are decimating kelp forests, the most diverse and important ecosystems off the West coast. Without these nurseries for ocean fish, their populations are due to collapse quickly.

posted by newtboy 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 367 views • 11:07

Ice lost in Greenland means higher sea levels around the world. "Oceans Melting Greenland," a NASA program in its fourth year, is studying the melt. So far, measurements indicate a rate of melt exceeding... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 324 views • 3:27

YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,834 views • 3:58

An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 1 week ago • 1,316 views • 2:14

This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 513 views • 4:57

YouTube description: The Yucatan peninsula is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world and every year just offshore from Cancun, the largest fish in the ocean aggregates in vast numbers to feed. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 3 months ago • 757 views • 5:26