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Demons of the Deep

"The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us. No soundings have been able to reach them. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water? What is the constitution of these animals? It's almost beyond conjecture." - Twenty Thousands Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne

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  • July 2008

    • 'Jaws' Visits Town That Made Him Famous

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 9:00 AM CDT

      'Jaws' Visits Town That Made Him Famous

      Fears of a real-live great white shark gripped the island site of the film Jaws yesterday, closing two beaches amid unconfirmed reports of a sighting, the AP reports. A plane searched the waters around Martha’s Vineyard off Massachusetts but found no sign of such a beast. Great whites are rare but not unknown in New England, where Steven Spielberg filmed the 1974 movie. More »

  • June 2008

    • Sure, Pat That Nose— It's Only a Great White

      newser  |  Smithsonian  |  Jun 1, 08 8:53 PM CDT

      Sure, Pat That Nose&mdash; It's Only a Great White

      Want to pat a great white shark's nose? Or ride its fin for 100 yards? Experts say the much-feared predators are so sociable and curious, you can swim with them or even tread water by their open jaws. "Unlike most fish, white sharks are intelligent, highly inquisitive creatures," one expert tells Paul Raffaele for his worldwide Smithsonian survey. More »

  • May 2008

    • No Octopi for Wings Fans, Seller Says

      newser  |  Detroit Free Press  |  May 23, 08 8:33 PM CDT

      No Octopi for Wings Fans, Seller Says

      Red Wings fans, save room in that suitcase—it may be tough to buy an octopus in Pittsburgh next week. One steel-town fishmonger refuses to sell octopi to Detroit fans once the Wings-Penguins Stanley Cup finals kick off on Saturday. In a tradition spanning more than 50 years, Detroit fans have been tossing eight-leggers on the ice to boost their team, the Detroit Free Press reports. More »

    • Ocean Sharks Face Extinction

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 22, 08 1:40 PM CDT

      Ocean Sharks Face Extinction

      Ocean sharks are threatened with extinction, with 11 species designated “high-risk” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and five more also in danger. Sharks are dwindling from intentional fishing, which targets them for their meat and fins, and “bycatch” fishing that lands them in nets meant for tuna and swordfish. The group is calling for global catch limits, the BBC reports. More »

  • April 2008

    • Collosal Squid Has World's Biggest Eyes

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 30, 08 7:27 PM CDT

      Collosal Squid Has World's Biggest Eyes

      With eyes bigger than dinner plates and orange-sized lenses, a colossal squid being dissected by New Zealand scientists boasts the biggest peepers of any animal—and larger relatives could lurk in the deep, the Telegraph reports. It's "certainly not the largest specimen out there," said one marine biologist, who believes a fully grown colossal squid could weigh in at 1,650 pounds. More »

    • Scientists Thaw Colossal Squid for Probe

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 28, 08 10:56 AM CDT

      Scientists Thaw Colossal Squid for Probe

      New Zealand scientists have begun defrosting a colossal squid, caught last year, so they can dissect the little-known species. They aim to start by determining the sex of the 34-foot long animal, a native of Antarctica that weighs half a ton. "They're incredibly rare—this is probably one of six specimens ever brought up," one researcher told the BBC. More »

  • March 2008

    • Stingray Kills Boater off Fla. Keys

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 20, 08 2:54 PM CDT

      Stingray Kills Boater off Fla. Keys

      A stingray leapt out of the water and struck a 55-year-old Michigan woman who was sunbathing on the deck of a boat off the Florida Keys yesterday, CNN reports. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was knocked to the ground and pronounced dead at a local hospital. No word on the specific cause of death yet, but local reports say she was impaled through the neck by the 75 lb. ray's barb. More »

  • February 2008

    • Fewer Sharks, But More Attacks

      newser  |  LiveScience  |  Feb 27, 08 4:26 PM CST

      Fewer Sharks, But More Attacks

      Shark populations are way down, but attacks on humans are up, LiveScience reports. There were 71 shark attacks worldwide in 2007, continuing a four-year upswing, says shark expert George Burgess, although populations of the fish have shrunk 50% during the past 20 years. Even so, as human populations expand rapidly, so does beach-going—and the chance of encounters spikes accordingly. More »

    • Bizarre Antarctic Sea Life Found

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 20, 08 10:51 AM CST

      Bizarre Antarctic Sea Life Found

      A host of bizarre giant creatures lurk in the little-known waters of Antarctica, the Daily Telegraph reports. Thousands of specimens have been gathered by a mission to study Antarctic marine life before it is wiped out—including giant sea spiders the size of dinner plates, huge sea worms, and mammoth jellyfish. "I was staggered by the size of things," said an expedition leader. More »

    • Hunter: Nessie 'Probably Dead'

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Feb 11, 08 1:38 PM CST

      Hunter: Nessie 'Probably Dead'

      Two decades of silence from the depths of Loch Ness signal its most famous resident is likely dead, says the man who's searched for Nessie every summer since he says he first saw it in 1972. Ex-physicist, lawyer, and MIT professor Rob Rines, whose underwater photos are considered the best possible evidence for the creature’s existence, is hunting for the beast's skeleton, the Boston Globe reports. More »

    • Jaws Actor Scheider Dead at 75

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 11, 08 7:39 AM CST

      Jaws Actor Scheider Dead at 75

      Actor Roy Scheider, famous for his roles in Jaws, All That Jazz , and The French Connection, died yesterday while being treated for multiple myeloma . He was believed to be 75 , though he sometimes gave a different age in interviews, reports the Los Angeles Times . He once predicted that the Jaws role "will be on my tombstone." More »

  • December 2007

    • Earliest Whale Ancestor a Deer?

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Dec 20, 07 1:50 PM CST

      Earliest Whale Ancestor a Deer?

      Quick: What's the the whale's earliest-known ancestor? Wrong. It may not have been Bambi, but it was a deer about the size of a domestic cat, the Guardian reports. Fossil hunters have named the small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons and munched on vegetation Indohyus. It lived 48 million years ago, and it's thought to be the "missing link"  between ancient land mammals and the likes of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. More »

    • What Makes a Monster Wave?

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Dec 12, 07 10:45 PM CST

      What Makes a Monster Wave?

      Stories of 100-foot ocean waves have existed in our cultural memory for centuries, but a new finding may get to the bottom of these sea behemoths, Reuters reports. Similar phenomena have been observed in light waves, according to a study in the journal Nature, and scientists say they hope they can use those findings to predict ocean waves. More »

    • Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      newser  |  New York Review of Books  |  Dec 8, 07 7:31 AM CST

      Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      Though the first deep-sea expedition took place in 1931, humans still know little about what goes on miles below sea level. What we do know is startlingly strange, Tim Flannery writes in a look at two new volumes in the New York Review of Books —and a rising tide of sewage is contaminating Earth's final "final frontier" faster than it can be studied. More »

  • October 2007

    • 'Croc Hunter' Knew He'd Die Young, Widow Says

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Oct 29, 07 3:33 PM CDT

      'Croc Hunter' Knew He'd Die Young, Widow Says

      Plucky Australian crocodile hunter Steve Irwin always had premonitions of an early death, his widow Terri says, adding that her husband “had a real sixth sense." She's writing a book about her life with the daredevil naturalist, who died at age 44 when a stingray’s barb pierced his heart in September 2006, Reuters reports. More »

  • September 2007

    • Climate Change Can Even Muck Up Deepest Sea Creatures

      newser  |  Independent (UK)  |  Sep 10, 07 3:27 AM CDT

      Climate Change Can Even Muck Up Deepest Sea Creatures

      Scientists have discovered that even the bizarre creatures that live on chemical ooze in the blackest, deepest parts of the ocean aren't safe from environmental disasters. It turns out that larvae of tiny deep-sea shrimp live on microscopic plants that rely on sunlight and filter down from the surface. More »

    • New Yorkers Push 6-Foot Beached Shark Back to Sea

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Sep 2, 07 8:53 AM CDT

      New Yorkers Push 6-Foot Beached Shark Back to Sea

      Never ones to shrink from a challenge, a group of sentimental New Yorkers yesterday pushed a struggling six-foot beached shark back to sea in a "Jaws-dropping" drama off the Rockaways, reports the New York Daily News. "It was freaking out. Its tail was flopping everywhere," said a 10-year-old swimmer. "Maybe it got separated from its family." More »

  • July 2007

    • Giant Squid Storms Australia

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 07 11:26 AM CDT

      Giant Squid Storms Australia

      A giant squid that weighs 550 pounds and measures 26 feet from the tip of its body to the end of its fearsome tentacles washed up on an Australian beach today. The rarely spotted sea creature is the largest specimen encountered since February, when fishermen in New Zealand netted a 33-foot catch that weighed 1,100 pounds. More »

  • May 2007

    • Shark Births Fatherless Baby

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 23, 07 2:50 PM CDT

      Shark Births Fatherless Baby

      Irish and American scientists, using new techniques, confirmed that a female hammerhead shark at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska gave birth to a pup in 2001— without having sex. A male tiger shark was suspected to be the father at first, but the team's genetic analysis shows no sign of paternal DNA. More »

  • November 2005

    • A Serpent, or at Least Its Tale, Resurfaces

      New York Times  |  Nov 12, 05

      ALAS, it's safe to assume that whatever Dick Affolter and Pete Bodette saw and photographed in Lake Champlain on a clear, still afternoon in July will not provide the Champ-ologists and cryptozoologists of the world with anything resembling proof that there really is a mysterious sea creature living in the lake, which stretches for 120 miles between the United States and Canada.It would be easier to roll your eyes and dismiss their murky video - and their vivid tale - of a huge, serpentlike sea creature that swam just beneath the surface for 45 minutes, if the two were not serious fishermen, upstanding...

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In this photo released by Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, a giant squid is seen after it washed up onto Ocean Beach in Strahan, Tasmania, Tuesday, July, 10. 2007. The squid, measuring 1 meter (3...   (Associated Press)
In this undated photo released by the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Norton, one of the original whale sharks on exhibit at the aquarium is shown. Officials at the aquarium reported that Norton died early...   (Associated Press)
Craig Ferguson arrives at the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage Celebrity Preview at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif. on Sunday, June 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)   (Associated Press)
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