by Emily Stangel | May 29, 2026 | News Briefs
Emily Stangel, Collections Assistant and Dan Distel, Director May 29, 2026 Antarctic icefish are known to be the only vertebrates on Earth to have lost functional red blood cells during their evolution … until now. H. William Detrich, long-term Ocean...
by Emily Stangel | Mar 17, 2026 | News Briefs
Emily Stangel, Collections Assistant and Dan Distel, Director March 17, 2026 Andy Schmid, UN World Oceans Day 2023 photo competition / Andy Schmid The high seas once lacked environmental protections against overfishing, habitat destruction, and unregulated extraction...
by Emily Stangel | Feb 18, 2026 | News Briefs
By Emily Stangel, Collection Assistant Co-op and Dan Distel, Director of OGL We are excited to announce that the Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL) has joined the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP)! A global network of more than 60 affiliated organizations and initiatives,...
by Julia DiPinto | Nov 18, 2025 | News Briefs
By Julia DiPinto and Dan Distel A specimen of American anglerfish Lophius americanus. (Credit: Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada – pull my finger, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34612997) Sometimes the answers to challenges on land...
by Julia DiPinto | Oct 31, 2025 | News Briefs
By Julia DiPinto and Dan Distel Get ready for Halloween by learning about a spooky species that OGL has in our very own biorepository: the skeleton shrimp! These fascinating creatures are also known as “ghost shrimp” because of their ability to hide along...
by Julia DiPinto | Sep 24, 2025 | In the lab, News Briefs, Research
By Julia DiPinto and Dan Distel In a new publication, researchers use paper waste to feed Teredinibacter turnerae bacteria strains that in turn produce high-value antibiotics and enzymes, such as Turnercyclamycin and Tartrolon E. (Image credit: Gerton et al. 2025)....
