Water Enjoyer

The term for this movement is "galumphing," and the seal can still move at up to 6-8 mph.

In "true seals", the hip is fused to the pelvis.

In sea lions, there's still some mobility in the hip joint, but limited by the mass of 'body wall' around it.

Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife The rare giant phantom jelly was spotted during a science expedition off the coast of Argentina.

A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina

Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...

Illuminated giant kelp - white light on black background - at OmegaMart in Las Vegas.

Trippy #kelp for #PhycologyFriday! #SciArt #MarineLife 🌊🦑🐡

I just noticed the model fish in the bg looks pissed off over his depiction. Sorry buddy.

The full piece drops tomorrow for EDO!

#mermaid #merman #salmon #embroidery

Perhaps we should hear this Leviathan out.

Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop.

Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a jellyfish, anemone, beetle, and so on.

IT'S FINISHED!
The Art of #InverteFest December 2024 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 76 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book!

Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1p-EC...

The reveal #InvertAdvent

The Snake Star Ophiopsammus maculata. This is the largest known brittle star. It is a predatory species which ambushes prey, even very mobile species like squat lobsters. Probably not humans, but you never know.

A small sea slug that almost resembles a rabbit in its posture. It is a mixture of white and green and is covered in golden sparkles from its algae that it has consumed

A small sea slug that almost resembles a rabbit in its posture. It is a mixture of white and green and is covered in golden sparkles from its algae that it has consumed

Technically this is not a #Nudibranch and instead sits under the Sacoglossan super order. It is a sea slug and is an undescribed Eubranchus that I found in 37C (98F) degree water temperature in the United Arab Emirates. It is also photosynthetic using prey chloroplast to produce sugars.
#MarineLife

Tall gray heron in a bush so its body is mostly obscured. Its neck looks like a long branch sticking out of the bush, and it’s looking at the photographer head on so the beak is not very obvious

I fear that I take our common Great Blue Herons for granted because I see them all the time

But every once in awhile I see an angle that reminds me of the majestic dinosaurs they are, and I’m grateful

Looks like a murder branch

#birds 🪶

Celebrating the Giant Kelp Forests of the Great Southern Reef Doodle - Google Doodles Learn more about the creation of Celebrating the Giant Kelp Forests of the Great Southern Reef Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

I love that today's google doodle celebrates the amazing, important kelp forests fringing the southern coast of Australia
🦑
These underwater forests are home to wondrous animals like sea dragons, blue-ringed octopuses, wobbegongs and handfish
#Greatsouthernreef
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A lizard with a line of black spikes down its back and rusty brown and black coloring on its body. It is climbing out of clear waters onto a beach.

Baby Godzilla returns from the sea.

Darwin was wrong for slagging Marine Iguanas. These lizards are just fabulous.

Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Hippocampus

A fish resting on the bottom at a 45-degree angle on a rock with finely branching red algae growing on it. The fish appears to be looking at the camera and is facing toward the upper left corner of the picture. It has a very small mouth at the end of its pointed snout. It's tail and rear part of its body are curved away from the camera, so only 3 of the broad reddish brown vertical bars on its body are visible. The bars extend all the way up the dorsal fin. The base color of the body and top of the head is a greenish brown. Its large front/pectoral fins, which appear to be supporting the body on the rock, have many banded fin rays in red, yellow and brown. The tips of its dorsal fin rays are bright red. The underside of its head is mostly white with a few scattered brown blotches. Its eye has an oblong orange circle with a dark pupil. And four hairlike tufts on its head above the eye.

I'm happy to see #Fishmas on Bluesky! So here's a painted greenling in a #Humboldt tide pool to get me started. 🐟🤿

You can also use the hashtag #Alt4Me (adding the keyword so this won't get picked up into the feed: nofeed ) and helpful volunteers monitor the feed and come by and describe the image for you!

Drawings of colorful sea slugs. Some are real species while others are not lol. Starting from the top left, they are: 1) a Aegires Villosus that is pink, purple, white, and yellow 2) a "Matcha Bubble Tea" slug that is green dark brown, and white 3) Tambja Affinis, which is has lime, yellow, dark blue, light blue, and orange 4) Hypselodoris Iacula, which is lavender, white, orange, and purple 5) a "Strawberry" slug with red, green, white, and yellow with a pink background 6) a "Salmon and Cream Cheese Bagel" slug, which is brown, pink, green, and white with a blue background

A collection of slugs, both real and unreal 🦄
Created using arrtx #acrylicmarkers 😊💕
#cuteart #seaslugs

Photo from Genshin Impact taken at dusk, underwater near a large skull

Photo from Genshin Impact taken inside a flooded building with columns and large glass dome

Photo from Genshin Impact featuring underwater ruins

Photo from Genshin Impact showing a sunrise behind pointed mountains