Allen Collins

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Great explanation of cool work by @gelatinoussting.bsky.social

Go Chris Mah! Keep bringing dark taxa to light.

[New Paper] Provides the first description of cold seep fauna in the Sea of Japan, revealing just a few species living in very cold water. We also found a new snail species -- named Provanna cocytus after the icy hell in Dante's "Divine Comedy"!
OPEN ACCESS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

Screenshot of a Science Magazine headline announcing the retraction of “Integrative phylogenetic positions sponges at the root of the animal tree”

The plot thickens in the sponges-vs-ctenophores-as-animal-outgroup drama…

Maybe this explains why many species fall apart almost instantly upon capture and most have been very difficult to preserve in collections.

Collage showing an aerial view of a 1-hectare reef experiment with a 9‑metre boat for scale; divers constructing standardised artificial reefs; mature kelp forest communities on the structures; and a close-up of a kelp holdfast with associated marine biodiversity.

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#Biodiversity declines as #kelp forests thin and fragment. Our large‑scale field experiment shows that denser kelp forests support more taxa, and kelp spatial arrangement strongly shapes community composition. #FeatureArticle
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Costasiella ocellifera cruising across the sand. Like other sap-sucking slugs, these little dudes eat algae and steal their photosynthetic cells so they can generate their own energy from the sun.

I was looking in the sand for some other tiny slugs when I spotted this little Costasiella ocellifera. It was about the size of a grain of rice!

#nudibranchs #underwaterphotography #macro #bahamas #scuba 🦑 📷

Whip coral goby (Bryaninops amplus). These little fellows are very difficult to photograph, they will scuttle around the whip coral avoiding you like it's a game of tag. Palau Hantu, Singapore. #scuba #marinelife #underwaterphotography

Employment with Ocean Exploration Trust Full-time Staff Openings None at this time.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Ocean Exploration Trust is hiring independent contractors for at-sea positions of data engineers, video engineers, and ROV engineers for our 2026 expedition season aboard E/V Nautilus. More information at nautiluslive.org/about/employ.... Questions can be directed to careers@oet.org.

Sorting through some images today I came across a ciliate I’d forgotten all about! This flabby little fella is Campanella sp. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills. It's against a light beige looking background. This was most likely done with specialty markers.

Today's Oarfish comes from Junikoon on Pinterest! They have many more lovely sketchbook drawings on their profile for you to see! #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife #drawing #marineanimals

More fun with UV! This polychaete larva proved to be a great subject to experiment with my new UV torch! The setae (the ‘hairy’ bits) are particularly striking.
#marineplankton 🦑

Onychoteuthid from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 453 East Cortes Basin #designingthefuture2 #MarineLife

A chance to name a new species!

Expanding the Range—and our Understanding—of the Freckled Stargazer Fisheries biologists recently documented the freckled stargazer in locations previously thought to be outside its range. Their work demonstrates how surveys and museum collections are continuously con...

What's a freckled stargazer you ask? Find out, and learn more about how Fisheries Surveys and Museum Collections build evidence that helps us better understand #MarineLife! www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

NOAA Marine Biologist Allen Collins on the Importance of Exploring Our Oceans - NOAA Fisheries Video Gallery NOAA Marine biologist Allen Collins discusses why it is important to explore our world’s oceans.

It is Ocean Exploration Day! #OceanExplorationDay videos.fisheries.noaa.gov/detail/video...
Here are some old thoughts on the importance of exploring our oceans, with a #MarineLife slant for sure. What are your favorite reasons for exploring the world's oceans?

First characterization of fungal communities in a benthic jellyfish!! #MarineLife

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Your artwork could go on an ocean adventure aboard #EVNautilus! Students ages 5 to 18 can submit artwork for consideration for the official Nautilus Expedition Season Stickers and Patch to be worn and displayed by members of the #CorpsofExploration: Learn more: bit.ly/47LODnm

#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws

Excellent to see this record that adds good distribution and association information about this species and genus in need of description. @beziostudio.bsky.social is working on it as part of his dissertation.

'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.

Deep Sea squid gets down in the dirt…er….sediment??
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...

🦉🌎🧪 TY @sfgate.com for covering the Farallones murrenados! During breeding season, hundreds of thousands of #CommonMurres swirl over the island before landing en masse. Once reduced to 6K, the Farallon population has rebounded to 500K thanks decades of monitoring and #conservation. shorturl.at/ZZJZQ

Photo of an oceanographic instrument being deployed off a research vessel in the Bering Sea. It is surprisingly sunny and calm.

Today we are running seawater samples from the Fall Bering Sea #EcoFOCI mooring cruise. #FieldworkFriday 🧪🌊🦑

www.ecofoci.noaa.gov

Wandering albatross sailing above the ocean

First day at sea on our expedition to Commonwealth Bay in east #Antarctica, and we've been joined by three species of albatross already! Such magnificent birds, cruising effortlessly on massive wingspans #auroraexpeditions #USyd #SAEF @stephgardner.bsky.social #marinescience 🧪🦑

It isn’t World Jellyfish Day, but any day is a good day to share images of jellies!

A new microscopy breakthrough is revealing the oceans’ invisible life A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of mari...

I for one will be extremely happy to peruse an illustrated guide to microscopic organisms documented through expansion microscopy. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This past year I reviewed an MS using this technique and was very impressed by this new technique. #MarineLife

Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence Genes with strong and consistent signals favor sponges as humans’ most distant animal relatives

I suppose it is natural to have the comparison point by “human” in discussing the earliest divergence with metazoans. Consider the source! That aside, another marker post in the Porifera-or-Ctenophora first (divergence) is fun to see. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This work on benthic ctenophore systematics (creation of Benthoplanidae) sets up a few planned works, focused on the systematics and evolution of shallow and deep water groups. www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=...