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Little n’ large. Polychaete larvae from my latest plankton sample.
#marineplankton 🦑

Selkie Sunday 💙🦭🌕

📸 by Karl Ramsdell

kellyjarviswriter.com/selkie-moon

#selkiesunday #SelkieMoon #selkies #fairytale #folklore #debutnovella #seal #sealife #oceanphotography #maine

Seal decided no photos today. #seal #westerncape #oceanlife #southafrica #africa #wildlife #nature #photography #photographer #africananimals

We’ve made a new friend in the anchorage. He’s round, whiskered, and an excellent swimmer. 🐙📷

#marinelife #marine #ocean #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #britishcolumbia

You can’t say that words

Hi goodeworx

Please let him

I’ve changed

Hey! The offer is still up?

I don’t know

Cool pumpkin I just saw #pumpkin

Hey! Is the offer still up?

Hi guys I’m on bluesaky. I only use it for good and I love god

Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend?

🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length.

🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!

Lots of nematodes in this week’s sample! There was a fair bit of loose seaweed in there, so that may be why? 🤔
#marineplankton 🦑

Salps, a clear, gelatinous ocean animal, use jet propulsion to glide through the water without leaving insight into how they move.

With harmless green dye, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Sutherland was able to study salp locomotion at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama.

Cf. Antholoba, snail, sea cucumber (Cucumariidae?), & sea star.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 835 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife

The Sharp-Ear Enope #Squid is always a special find. This one was quite large (~2cm) and quite the performer!

#sharpearenopesquid #enopesquid #🦑 #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug #marinelife

Coral City Kiss Cam!! 😘🔮👜🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #swimminghandbag #kisscam #kissyfish #fishlips #boxfish #trunkfish #muah #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

Cape Pembroke this morning. #sealions #marinelife #mammals #oceanlife #wildlife

A tiny orange and white hermit facing the camera, eyes on slightly divergent stalks; each eye operates individually, giving the hermit a possible 360° field of vision. Here he carries his antennae, green and white dotted lines, spread horizontally; antennules between the eyes are lifted vertically; sensory hairs on his chelae detect scent and vibration: all senses alert. The legs, chelipeds, and maxillipeds are orange with wide white patches. Eye stalks are also orange, the eyes black. The hermit stands beside and behind two grains of sand, each one bigger than he, borrowed shell and all. On his right (our left) is a part of a food pellet, easily twice his size.

Between grains of sand. What gets me is the interest in the world around him, the responsiveness, even the curiosity of such a miniscule creature. A Holm's hermit, watching me watching him. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

A wobbegong shark propped up on the pectoral fins and looking up for food.

Happy Nonbinary Day and Shark Awareness Day from your neighborhood trans, agender, shark person :)

I love learning about the sensory systems and mechanics of these amazing animals!

🦈 🐟 🦑 #sharks #sensory #neuromechanics #science #research #TransInStem #agender

Three little yellow jacks synchronous swim close to the Cam 🐥🐥🐥 #yellowjacks #jackfish #juvenile #slowmotion #upclose #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

DO NOT bop his nose

Grey Seal in Chatham 06/24/25

#greyseal #seal #mammals #MarineLife #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #photography #BlueskyArtShow #Chatham #CapeCod 🪶🦭

An unusual visitor, a scrawled cowfish, blows us kisses and gently backs away 😘✏️🐮🐟 #scrawledcowfish #cowfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #kisses #backaway #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Gaze into my eyes

Throwback Thursday! Grey Seal in Chatham 11/17 #GreySeal #seals #MarineLife #seal #mammals #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #photography #chatham #CapeCod #ThowbackThursday 🦭🌿

A translucent shrimp perched within the lobes of bubble coral. It has long antennae and think blue lines on its claws, legs and tail. #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A bubble coral shrimp (Palaemonella philippinensis), Anilao

#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

A sea lion mid-vocalization, exposing its foul looking teeth.

Every time I see people getting inappropriately close to sea lions, I wonder if they’ve ever seen a shot of those teefers because… HELL nah 🦊🦑 from yesterday at La Jolla!

A rainbow tripod fish looks directly at the viewer with large green, blue, yellow, and purple fins that radiate in almost a complete circle from its body. The fin ray tips end in purple tips.

The legendary rainbow tripod fish ( #Bathypteroisphenax) eventually settles on the seabed and lives its life sitting on its fintips above the silty abyssal plane. In its larval form is is one of the most stunning fish we see on our #blackwater dives. #deepsea #marinelife

It's world Sea Lion Day. Here's a Galapagos Sea Lion that just seemed to be napping right underneath me. These are endemic to the Galapagos. They are considered endangered. They will come right up to people as they did many times to me. Once while sitting in a lounge chair at a pool.
🦑🌿🦭