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A photo of the pelagic basslet Howella - credit CSIRO

“Less evolved” my foot, show me a terrestrial vertebrate that cultures bioluminescent bacteria in its gut!

I gotta get some slide film

So many people sharing a citizenship with Jeffrey Dahmer having an opinion 😮‍💨🙄

But look at their nice smiley faces :)

Big if true

I loved the rowdy singalong screening of Zone of Interest I attended

HELL YEA

Fun paper I've been helping with was submitted yesterday 🥳 If you like rare little weirdos watch this space 🐟

A school of tuna. They are beautiful.

"they outswim fish in the sea" uh

A live Indonesian Coelacanth photographed by divers in 2025. There is a diver behind the fish, which is speckled, odd looking, and smiling pleasantly.

"Birds survived one mass extinction event" yeah that's cute

Cartoon of a lemon pig holding a two pence coin on an orange background. Text around her reads: We're all counting on you Lemon Pig!

Lemon pig ....please... bring us good fortune this year
(Nother new sticker design)

British bacon is from the back!

I mean perhaps, but that genus (Beroe) is found in surface waters as well. The video (to my eyes) looks to be taken by a blackwater diver - a person in scuba gear in the open ocean at night, so probably near the surface.

CRUSH Yellow Claw, Natte Visstick, RHYME · CRUSH · Song · 2024

open.spotify.com/track/5GKsUq...

I'm watching this while listening to this song and it's a wonderful experience

They’re not creepy they’re the most beautiful fishes in the sea 🥹😍🥰

I think it’s a mix of that, which is a genuine and quite noble sentiment, and the “they put woke in my star war” crowd

A hatching honeyguide with the hooked tip of its beak visible through the crack in the eggshell. From this paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0739

A honeyguide chick with three recently killed little bee-eater hatchling that it just killed. From: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0739

Honeyguides are natural-born killers - like cuckoos, they are brood parasites, and the first thing going through the mind of a honeyguide chick when it hatches from its egg is:
MURDER
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Yowie zowie

Can on ingerland

Good luck ritual

Huh, well that’s something I did not know

It’s a ¿Cnidarian?

Bowie Knife guy

Thought I was about to find out something terrible about Otis Redding from the rhythm of this text

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Theres a notorious student curry house in Southampton that displays a guardian article listing it as the UK’s 6th best curry house from 2007 in the window.

I’m so jealous of Americans for their centrarchids 😩 such a pleasant family of fishes

They really are wonderful little critters 🫡

A plainfin midshipman being held between someone's thumb and forefingers. The fish is a beautiful bronze colour but has small eyes and a large mouth filled with hooked teeth that some might consider ugly. Not me though, I love these lil guys. Source: Alex Heyman/iNaturalist/Wikimedia.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok I asked a plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus) and it hummed loudly at 100Hz every night for a month as part of an elaborate courtship ritual that also involves bioluminescence.

Historical illustration from 1754 depicting eight colorful, stylized aquatic creatures including five fish and three crustaceans. The fish are vibrantly striped or spotted in shades of yellow, orange, pink, blue, and green, each with distinct shapes and patterns. The crustaceans include two shrimps—one labeled female and the other male—with segmented bodies and long antennae, and a crab with a detailed, rounded shell and multiple legs. Each creature is labeled with descriptive French names and numbers. The overall style is ornamental and scientific, showcasing extraordinary colors and forms. The keyword "goat" is unrelated to the main aquatic subjects.

🐐 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, .
A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754..

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Can't wait to see the Manitheosto published by every major newspaper under the threat of [redacted]