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I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

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Hope you are enjoying the new series of Monkey Cage

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I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧

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Surprised my ruddy duck stickers aren’t more popular, but I like them. Thinking of not reprinting more once these are sold out. You can get them here if you like ducks! www.thornwolf.com/shop/p/ruddy... #BSNM #SciArt #Birdsky

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You are fantastic. You are a living grimoire. You are the dreams of an eldritch goddess. You are a tiny library in the hollow of an ancient oak. You are a swarm of faeries writing poetry on the night sky with streaks of glittery flames.

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Once again I learn how big American sports fields are from useful science communication.

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Today is my birthday and if you want to give me a gift, please repost my art 😊 #sciart

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Fascinating indeed! "the finding raised fascinating questions about the role environmental factors can play in driving group living and in promoting the evolution of certain social traits." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...

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P is for Patagurus, a hermit crab known from only ONE SPECIMEN EVER! Instead of a snail shell, it wears a bivalve to cover its tiny abdomen. Is this how hermit crabs gave up their houses in carcinization? 🤔 (see king & coconut crabs, ALSO hermits) #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑 www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/arti...

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Have you ever heard of a limnic eruption? Probably not, since only a few have occurred in recorded history. Here is a thread on one of the wildest natural disasters that almost never happen, and the “invisible tsunami” that claimed over 1,700 lives in the middle of the night, without a sound. 1/10🧵

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Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.

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Saíram surpreendentes novas imagens do peixe-pescador. Ele é uma fêmea bem pequena, cerca de 6 cm.

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Scientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.

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New tilefish just dropped! 🐟🦑🌎🧪 novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/02/bran...

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@fathomverse.bsky.social was funded by NSF. Download it today fathomverse.game 🧪🌎🦑🌊

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"While humans have demonstrated the ability to drive rapid physical changes in dogs through selective breeding, the study finds little evidence linking these changes to task specialization." www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...

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These scallop eyes are just the thing I needed this morning - small little gems of evolution. If this scallop can sense some light in the world, I should arrive for the same.

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I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with this information www.popsci.com/environment/...

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Wake up, babe -- new footprints from the Avellino eruption just dropped! 🏺🧪👣

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We flew (twice) the world's first (only) UV fiberfed spectrograph (that I built) on a stratospheric balloon - we tried to measure the intergalactic medium (now, really, we call that part the circumgalactic medium). It's a whole field now!

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A federal award supported my participation in this amazing study where @dudinlab.bsky.social figured out that unicellular relatives of animals go through embryo-like development. Incredible work that advances our understanding of where we came from. www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

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The biodiversity of cold-water coral reefs rivals that of tropical coral reefs, but because such ecosystems are typically found in chilly, dark waters, they receive only a fraction of the attention of tropical reefs. That may be changing. A 🧪 🧵

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Purple is a mix of red (long) and blue (short) wavelengths. The problem: Those colors are on opposite ends of the spectrum. So the brain improvises. It takes the visible spectrum and bends it into a circle. This puts blue and red next to each other. www.snexplores.org/article/colo...

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Meet the fungi that live in the sea

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I love you more than this!* *Even when I'm crabby #crab #invertebrate #art 🦀🐡

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icymi, I wrote about how two college students dropped everything to photograph a rare shrew (and proved their haters wrong!) defector.com/much-ado-abo...

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Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

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Part 2 for today's dive. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 782 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife www.youtube.com/live/JSnAB64...

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Everyone stop what you're doing and spend <4 minutes watching a video of one of the prettiest octopuses you'll ever see in your life and the happy scientists talking about him @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5A...

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TIL some corals can walk, roll, and generally skedaddle. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/s...

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Parasite conservation sounds like a counterintuitive idea, but actually there are lots of reasons why this is important for the long term sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem processes. #parasitology #ticks #ectoparasite 🪱🧪🌍 therevelator.org/ryukyu-rabbi...

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Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

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I just learned that Moon jellies can live about 1 yr, you can estimate their age by the number of branches along the radial canals, and the bright, small spot along the edge at the indentations is the statolith (basically the inner ear)! These are from the GA Aquarium.

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There are some new arrivals, and haven't done one in a short while, so... intro post! Hi! My name is Or; I study marine environmental changes, and I also write some SFF. I post about both of these and whatever interesting research I ran into from across many disciplines - because science is cool!

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Eeeeeee!! What an adorkably silly face 🥰 Researchers found this baby king crab (Neolithodes agassizii) hitchhiking on a plastic bag in the Gulf of Mexico. They usually live at depths of 200–1,900 metres and grow up to 12 cm in size. 🧪🦑 🌿 What would you name this tiny crablet? 📹 NOAA Fisheries

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I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead. Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.

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Deep Sea See the First Detailed Illustration of an Ancient Deep-Sea Mountain www.bu.edu/articles/202...

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These rattlesnakes are making me thirsty. 🧪🐍 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/s...

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Weird stuff rabbits eat: 💩 Their own poo, to extract all nutrition from grass 😬 Their own teeth, to improve calcium intake (as tested in the linked paper). Bon appetit! 🧪 🦊 www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/26...

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To learn more about the drama of little penguin divorce, watch Little Penguin Love Island on Curiosity Stream ❤️🐧

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#ProjectESCA lives! @autsquidsquad.bsky.social and I developed this novel light lure with support from the #PureOceanFund. It uses illumination invisible to the animals, a 360-degree camera, and simulated #bioluminescence to attract #deepsea animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8PU...

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"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." Of course not. The horse is playing 5-D chess with hydration status, biding their time before they strike.

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A pop-science article I wrote for The Conversation, finally a news source that listens to the sources (scientists) and allows citations to claims! We need more of this!

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Giant pink slug makes a comeback on extinct volcano in NSW national park. The kaputar slug, which can grow longer than a human hand, was almost wiped out in the black summer bushfires of 2019-20 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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🦑 Squid Anatomy🦑 I am so genuine- if you are a marine biologist who has written or wants to write a comic, please consider this post my application. 🐡🌊💥

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A book by @restingdinoface.bsky.social about prehistoric plants? Preordered!

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Velvet ants don't take sh*t from anyone...now we know how that system works. Super interesting research.

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