Posts tagged ocean
Articles and news from the latest research reports.
The songs of whales and dolphins can be beautiful to the ear. Now acoustics engineer Mark Fischer has created a way to make them visually pleasing too. What’s more, his technique captures more information about the sound than traditional ways of visualising whalesong.
What good is color vision in the dark of the deep sea? For some crabs, an ability to see blue and ultraviolet light may mean the difference between chowing down on a good meal versus a toxic one.
A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology finds that some seafloor, or benthic, crabs can see in color. But the crustaceans live in darkness of the deep Caribbean where sunlight does not penetrate, making their sensitivity to blue and ultraviolet light mysterious.
(Source: livescience.com)
Deep-sea squid removes its own arms to distract baffled predators
A species of deep sea squid can jettison its own bioluminescent arms to distract predators and attackers. Later, when the squid has safely escaped, it re-grows its lost limbs.