Deep Sea Marine Life in the Yahoo! Directory

Explore the Abyss
View the photo gallery dedicated to deep-sea and oceanic life. Find images of hydrothermal vent animals, deep-sea fish, invertebrates, and plankton, octopus and squid, bioluminescence in the abyss, open ocean animals, and whales and dolphins.
www.exploretheabyss.com
Lophelia.org
Learn about the ancient, cold-water coral ecosystems of the deep ocean. View images, movies, case studies, and an interactive dive.
www.lophelia.org
CenSeam: A Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts
Census of Marine Life project studying undersea mountains and the life that thrives on them. Learn about the new species they have discovered.
censeam.niwa.co.nz
Monsters of the Deep
Introduction to the creatures that dwell in the deep ocean. Learn about their strange adaptations to the dark and cold.
www.seasky.org/monsters/sea7a.html
Hot Vents
Introduction to the fantastic assemblage of animals that are associated with the deep sea hot springs.
life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/hotvent.html
Aliens of the Deep@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Animals/Aliens_of_the_Deep
New Squat Lobster Family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) From the Hydrothermal Vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PDF)
Learn about the new genus and new species collected in hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, south of Easter Island, that is commonly referred to as the yeti crab or furry lobster.
www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/6892_z05n4a3.pdf
deepseascape.org
Explore the U.K.'s deep-sea landscape with this image and video library.
www.deepseascape.org
Deep Sea News
Blog dedicated to the largest environment on earth, the deep ocean beyond the continental shelf.
scienceblogs.com/deepseanews
Atlas of Megafauna from the DISCOL-Area, Tropical Southeastern Pacific Ocean
Designed to demonstrate to marine biologists the diversity of the megafauna of the Peru Basin (Southeast Pacific Ocean).
www.drbluhm.de/da_home.html
Benthic Foraminifers
Briefly addresses their importance to earth science research and list current USGS projects utilizing them.
geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/forams_b.shtml
National Geographic Explorer: Sea Monsters Game
Identify some of the unusual animals that make there home in the dark, mysterious places thousands of feet below the ocean surface.
magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0309/games/game.cgi
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Operation Deep Scope 2004
Exploring the deep in new ways in order to discover deep-sea creatures and learn more about how they have adapted to life in the ocean darkness.
www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04deepscope/welcome.html
www.DrBluhm.de
Lists the marine zoologist's publications and the DISCOL Atlas of Megafauna.
www.drbluhm.de
MarineBio.org: The Deep Sea
Learn about the some of the animals that live in the most extensive habitat on the planet, the permanently cold, dark waters at the bottom of the ocean.
www.marinebio.com/Oceans/TheDeep
@Sea Operation Deep Scope: Exploring Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Habitats
2004 mission to study the fantastic life forms of four alien landscapes in the Gulf of Mexico up to 3,000 feet deep.
www.at-sea.org/missions/deepscope
Home on the Ridge: Life on the N.E. Pacific Hydrothermal Vents
Learn about the geologic processes that create these deep sea environments, the chimneys, the tubeworm community, and other life forms that thrive in the dark, toxic waters.
www.bio.psu.edu/hotvents
Life on the Edge: Exploring Deep Ocean Habitats (2)
Official project sites dedicated to the ongoing study that aims to document and understand the habitats and the species that exists along the edge of the continental shelf and the deeper continental slope.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Deep_Sea/Life_on_the_Edge__Exploring_Deep_Ocean_Habitats
MBARI Benthic Biology and Ecology
Primarily interested in factors that regulate the abundance and distribution of benthic communities.
www.mbari.org/benthic
DeepseaConservation.org
Home of the Deep-sea Conservation for the UK (DC-UK) project. Learn about the amazing diversity of life -- from dense sponge belts, cold-water coral reefs to fields of weird single-celled organisms called xenophyophores -- of the U.K.'s deep-sea waters.
www.marlin.ac.uk/dc-uk