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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has just posted better footage of Deepstaria,

The scyphomedusa Deepstaria is certainly odd, with its bag-like appearance, and bell that can open more than a meter wide. Speculation on the identity of a mystery blob of has become a YouTube sensation, sparking heated and entertaining debates over its identity. That video of Deepstaria reticulum (described by Larson, et al., in 1988) looks especially unusual because the medusa is being blown around by the thrusters of the Remotely Operated Vehicle, and eventually turns completely inside-out. In this video, we showed some more natural-looking specimens of Deepstaria reticulum and Deepstaria enigmatica, along with other related species from the deep sea

The video is STUNNING.  An expert on everything pelagic, Steve Haddock narrates the video and provides tons of great and interesting information.  Thanks goes to MBARI and Steve for providing more footage and explanation of this gorgeous creature.

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Note: from now on, I will only throw out my trash in slow motion, with a suitable backing track. I may also try to give my next seminar wearing those slotted Kanye West sunglasses.

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Marine researchers Craig McClain and Kevin Zelnio, both of Duke University, run a Web site (DeepSeaNews.com) that experienced an enormous spike in readership when the Raleigh Sewer Monster became a two-day Internet wonder (its Youtube video has more than 7 million hits). They had better information than many print sources, and they now take that responsibility seriously, they said.

“The day of scientists just doing science and not interacting with the public are over,” McClain says.

KZ and I take over the pages of the Charlotte Observer…well we get a paragraph in coverage of Science Online 2010.

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