GOOD: Attack of the Giant Jellyfish! Giant jellyfish have invaded the northern coasts of the Japanese islands and they're causing problems. Frustrated local fishermen are hauling in little else. So one company, RIKEN, is trying to make marketable products from these gelatinous monsters.… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
National Geographic Live! - Turning Failure into Nobel Gold Perseverance and a little luck lead Dr. Osamu Shimomura to the discovery of a lifetime. - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Jelly Fish All Around The jelly fish came to this lake in Palau through a tunnel which connected the sea and the lake long time ago. Now the tunnel have closed, and the jelly fish came to have no poison in an environment where there's no predator. They live by photosynthe… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
National Geographic Live! - Kakani Katija: Ocean Currents: Jellyfish & the Moon Can tiny sea creatures affect weather around the world? Emerging Explorer Kakani Katija looks to a new field of science for answers. - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Snorkling with golden jellyfish - Pacific Abyss - BBC Kate Humble enjoys a spectacular experience as she snorkels through hundreds upon hundreds of gently pulsing golden jellyfish. Amazing footage taken from the landmark BBC series. Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildl… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Killer Jellyfish How the Irukandji Jellyfish stingers work... excerpt from Discovery Channel documentary Killer Jellyfish produced by the Australian Natural History Unit. - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Sci-Tech TodayBahamas' underwater caves could give clues about life beyond EarthTruthDiveWashington, Jan 28 (ANI): Researchers believe recent discoveries made in some underwater caves in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on… - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 7:45am -
Local Biologist Behind Shark Tracking AppKGTV San DiegoSAN DIEGO -- A local marine biologist who has been tracking great white sharks has found an inventive way to share his research with the public. Fallbrook-based marine biologist Michael Domeier h… - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:21am -
Students Study the Oso BayKIII TV3Their findings could help determine if there's anything out there threatening marine life. Students from Dr. David McKee's Marine Ecology class casted out nets and scooped up plankton, the foundation of ocean food. T… - 10 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:10am -
CBC.caSuit Would Curb Navy Sonar for Marine LifeCourthouse News ServiceFor decades, the National Marine Fisheries Service has let the Navy conduct annual training exercises in an area of the Pacific Ocean that stretches from California's Mendocino Co… - 13 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:11pm -
Outcome MagazineStudy records deep-sea fish soundsOutcome Magazine26 (UPI) — US marine biologists say recordings of fish sounds 2237 feet below the North Atlantic surface can shed new light on deep-sea life and ecosystems. Model of an Atlantic wolf… - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:43am -
Texas A&M UniversityLife in ocean 'blue holes' studiedUPI.com26 (UPI) -- Life found in underwater caves in the Bahamas could give clues to what types of marine life might be found on distant planets and moons, researchers say. Discoveries made in so-… - 1 day ago, 26 Jan 12, 11:03pm -
Ocean sensors gauge pH on global scaleFuturity: Research NewsOne-third of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by human activity is absorbed by the world's oceans, which makes the waters more acidic and affects marine life. “We were able… - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 2:36pm -
#Shark time is all weekend! Any time u can&as many times as u can please tweet 2 protect& #SaveSharks #ocean #environment #wildlife #nature - 10 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:23pm -
@Shalyn67 Since you are in the #US, you can be an honourary Enemy of the State! #Cheers #FF #cdnpoli #environment #Ocean #Ethics #Science - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:34pm -
Over dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover's Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Dustan—a young ocean ecologist who had worked... - -
University of Massachusetts Amherst fish biologists have published one of the first studies of deep-sea fish sounds in more than 50 years, collected from the sea floor about 2,237 feet (682 meters) below the North Atlantic. With recording technology… - -
Oceans - "Exploring Oceans" Click here to buy: http://bit.ly/d2mtgXOCEANS on Disney Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD) and 1-Disc DVD, October 19, 2010 Become a fan of Disneynature on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/disneynature.Follow Disneynature on Twitter: http://… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
The End Of The Line, The inconvenient truth about the oce... To watch and learn more visit http://www.t5m.com/the-end-of-the-line The first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans will will premiere in the UK on Monday 8th June 2009 - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Finding Nemo Trailer 1 HD In Theaters: 10 October 2003 (UK)A clown fish named Marlin living in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a bo… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
The Big Blue Trailer HD In Theaters: 24 February 1989 (UK)Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and u… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Turtle: The Incredible Journey trailer from SeaWorld Pictures Turtle: The Incredible Journey, a family documentary directed by National Geographic Explorer's Nick Stringer and distributed by SeaWorld Pictures, debuts Friday, June 24th in Orlando. Turtle: The Incredible Journey is an award-winning film that fo… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 6:57pm -
Magical things can happen when you enthusiastically open your mouth on the internet. One of these magical things is learning how personal experience shapes people’s lives. Looking into others causes you to look into yourself. And then something rea… - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:57am -
An absolutely charming video that explains the different rigs of tall ships. (Thanks Rachel W!) . . . → Read More: Know Your Tall Ships - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:36am -
The above photo is making the rounds (see here and follow the link trail). In it the a scuba diver is next to Lion's Mane Jellyfish. But I'm calling bullshit on this photo. Lion's Maine Jellyfish are indeed big. The world record had a bell diam… - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 2:18am -
Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the show’s writers often resort to lines such as, “It’s better if we don’t talk about this… - 4 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 9:49pm -
I had forgotten about the Order of the Science Scouts of the Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. Stickers in our swag bags at Science Online quickly brought this back to my attention. Below is a list of my current badges and the activities… - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 3:26am -
The other deeplings (except RickMac) are at the fantastic Science Online conference this week, meeting with other scientist communicators and hatching various plots for DSN's ascendancy to world dominance using, I suspect, some combination of Ferraga… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 1:00pm -
7. Russian Wreck, South Egyptian Red Sea Known simply as the "Russian Wreck", this sunken ship is thought by some to have been the Khanka, a Russian spy ship that sank sometime before 1982. Whether or not it is the carcass of the Khanka, most seem to… - 11 days ago, 17 Jan 12, 2:01pm -
Two years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's system. Where was it going? Or, they wo… - 11 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:32pm -
The large changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonates which occurred prior to the major climatic event more than 500 million years ago, known as "Snowball Earth," are unrelated to worldwide glacial events, a new study suggests. - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:05pm -
The AIRS infrared instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has been providing forecasters with the cloud top temperatures in the Southern Indian Ocean's ninth tropical cyclone, which has officially been renamed Iggy. AIRS data showed that the a… - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:45am -
Fish biologists conducted one of the first studies of deep-sea fish sounds in more than 50 years, 2,237 feet under the Atlantic. With recording technology more affordable, fish sounds can be studied to test the idea that fish communicate with sound,… - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 7:29pm -
Coastal storms are known to cause serious damage along the shoreline, but they also cause significant disruption of the deep-sea ecosystem as well. - 2 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 10:23pm -
New research demonstrates that one suggested method of geoengineering the atmosphere to deal with climate change, injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere, probably would have limited success. - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 7:22pm -
Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations where hydrocarbon deposits may lie buried under the sea. A te… - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 4:31pm -
The fate of the jack mackerel in the southern Pacific may foretell the progressive collapse of fish stocks in all oceans. - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 5:00am -
In less than two weeks, scores of the mammals have washed ashore and died at a rate unusually high even for the area, which is considered a hotspot for strandings. - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 5:00am -
Samantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior in Long Island, was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for her work with mussels. - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 5:00am -
The limits set by the government on federally managed fish species will ensure that there will be fish, and fishing jobs, in the future. - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 5:00am -
Watch a recorded webcast about the latest efforts in Greece to study and save the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal.Photo Caption: Watch a… - , 12 Jul 11, 5:00pm -
Woods Hole scientists operate an ROV to sample the oil spewing from the ruptured Macondo Well. After the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mex… - , 12 May 11, 11:43am -
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, opening up a well that pumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean. It was the largest spill in U.S.Photo Caption: … - , 27 Apr 11, 3:59pm -
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill brought the world’s attention to the Gulf of Mexico and raised awareness of the region’s chronic loss of wetlands and the massive dead zone caused by excess… - , 12 Apr 11, 1:09pm -
In tsunamis, early warning systems are key to saving lives. NOAA uses buoys like these in a real-time global monitoring system called DART. The network of sensors, buoys, and satellites provide… - , 12 Mar 11, 2:31am -
A 2010 study of IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, found that one-fifth of the world's vertebrates (animals with backbones) are threatened with extinction. Meet some of the marine vertebrat… - , 29 Oct 10, 9:59pm -
The Chikyu, a Japanese research ship operated by JAMSTEC, drills deep beneath the ocean floor to find clues about Earth’s history and structure. Take a look inside and see how scientists use… - , 6 Aug 10, 4:12am -
A selection of fascinating facts about fishes from the new book "Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide"Related posts:New Book: “Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide”Narwhal fluke design helps compensate for drag caused by tuskSuitor’s gentle massage… - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 8:12pm -
An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus–revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behavior in early dinosaurs.R… - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 2:39pm -
Older forests with just the right fungi may be secret to saving these vulnerable plants.Related posts:Orchids: A View from the EastThe small whorled pogoniaNew book: The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 5:53pm -
A mineral dealer from Dallas recently donated this fine specimen of Chinese cinnabar–the common ore of mercury–to the Department of Mineral Sciences of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. This twinned crystal is approximately… - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 5:45pm -
People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Related posts:Ancient… - 10 days ago, 18 Jan 12, 1:06pm -
Scientists studying genetic variation and gene flow in a population of tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in California’s Mojave Desert, were surprised recently to discover that two roads built in the desert in the 1970s had a noticeable impact on the… - 11 days ago, 17 Jan 12, 12:29pm -
The new island visible in the satellite photograph is the top of a giant shield volcano located on the rift axis in the Red Sea where the continental plates of Africa and Arabia are pulling apart.Related posts:Can we spot volcanoes on alien worlds… - 17 days ago, 11 Jan 12, 4:45pm -
Freaks of Nature: Self Inflating Fish Is it a water balloon? A fish? A poisonous pill? It's all three actually. Click and see why.See All National Geographic Videoshttp://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/?source=4001 - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:40am -
Most intelligent Mimic Octopus in the world The most intelligent octopus in the worldOctopus magicien magic mimic clown nature sea pieuvre mime animal animaux poisson fish squid inlelligent intelligence pet indonesia water salt ocean shallow reef - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:40am -
MAUI MORAY EELS Maui has 38 different species of moray eels. Here are the most common ones flying thru the reef in there true splendor. www.pdmaui.com - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:40am -
Sea Monsters "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure" follows a dolichorhynchops as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history.See more Sea Monsters!http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/specials/films-specials/sea-monsters/sea-monsters… - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:40am -
Octopus Escape! We caught this Octopus in a shrimp trap here in Alaska. It had crawled in through a 3 inch opening and terrorized our catch of spot prawns, killing and eating several of them, and then, attached itself to the bait jar and unscrewed the lid to open fo… - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:40am -
Final week for entries to the January 2012 Monthly Contest. The theme is split shot, and the prize is a Photoshop CS4 and LIghtroom 3 DVD training series by Doug Sloss. - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 9:20pm -
Some of the beautiful birds to look out for to help assess the status of the nation's feathered friends during this year's big garden birdwatch. - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:24am -
Organisers of a project to create a series of new woods to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee hope to plant one million trees during February. - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:17am -
Cute primates slow lorises are in decline as they are being traded illegally as pets, but there are other endangered primates you may never have heard of that are also vanishing. - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 2:02am -
'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of t… - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 9:34pm -
"This World of Ours, Does not feel steady, We keep rotating, Oi! What will happen to us?"Photo Caption: "This World of Ours, Does not feel steady, We… - 88 days ago, 1 Nov 11, 3:03pm -
Smithsonian curator of fossil marine mammals Nick Pyenson and a team of collaborators are heading into Chile's Atacama Desert, shown here. They'll study a rich bonebed of fossil marine vertebra… - , 30 Sep 11, 10:38am -
Environmentalists sued the US government on Thursday over naval training exercises off the West Coast involving sonar that they say harms endangered marine animals in the Pacific Ocean including killer whales. - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:44am -
Rural campaigners are fighting proposals to erect pylons carrying a fifth of the country's electricity across an Essex landscape painted by Thomas Gainsborough 250 years ago. - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 5:49pm -
The costs to the UK of flooding could rise to billions of pounds a year in the coming decades, according to the first national assessment of the risks of climate change, but there will also be opportunities in tourism and agriculture. - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 7:00am -
Fun diving - The underwater petanque The underwater petanque. Depth 7 meters, location Tisno.Funny diving at the Czech diving base at Murter island - Croatia. Find more at www.fundiving.cz or www.murter.cz - 30 days ago, 29 Dec 11, 1:29am -
Live Fresh Fish Prank http://www.hahaha.com Fish salesman sells a fish so fresh it's still wiggling and the hammer just doesn't seem to want to do it. A presentation of the Just For Laughs Gags. The funny hidden camera pranks show for the whole family. Juste pour rire les… - 30 days ago, 29 Dec 11, 1:29am -
