Mostly Open Ocean

After some time away from blogging I have returned with a new website. Please go and read it: http://www.mostlyopenocean.com

This morning I went to the launch of Australia's National Science Week . One of the centerpieces of this year's activities is a cit...

Australia has taken Japan to the International Court of Justice over Japan's whaling in the Southern Ocean. There is an interesting ser...

Female southern bottletail squid may be able to influence the paternity and quality of their offspring by eating the sperm of males. This...

The evolution of living fossils is not unusual. The odd thing about them is that they have ancient origins and are, today, not very diverse...

Tomorrow is World Oceans Day, but today you can get a live stream from the Great Barrier Reef. Expert marine biologists are apparently on ha...

You may have never thought about what feature distinguishes males from females. After all, in mammals the differences are often clear to u...

The Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin is the best known marine research vessel. It was commissioned by the United States Navy in 1964, but it ...

Charles Darwin coined the term living fossil in On the Origin of Species . He didn’t use it the same way that it has come to be used. He ...

An article in the Guardian says that at a conference next week, David Attenborough will voice his support for the aquatic ape hypothesis. ...