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/...
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.
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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
bit.ly/meps15090
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
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 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
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!
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...
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
Got your email! And replied to it. But. . .
The Limnocnida could be sent to:
Abigail Reft c/o Bill Moser
Museum Support Center, MRC 534
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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.
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
Today we are running seawater samples from the Fall Bering Sea #EcoFOCI mooring cruise. #FieldworkFriday 🧪🌊🦑
www.ecofoci.noaa.gov
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!
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
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=...
