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A strange Starfish in Lombok - Gili - Indonesia
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #gilimeno #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #diver #padi #starfish #echinoderm

a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇

QRP with something with horns🐲

Added in the shiny reflections and he is pretty much done. I'd like to touch up certain areas after resting for a bit, but I may as well show him off early.

This is "Regal", a male Australian blue swimmer crab that took nearly 250 hours to paint, spanning over 3 years

#sciart #crustmas 🦀

A purple, red and white crab. Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/3438552539

The toxic crab (Lophozozymus incisus), a rare and very beautiful species found in warm waters the world over, including off the coast of Australia.

Toxic crabs can be incredibly dangerous, containing toxins that are similar to those of the pufferfish, called tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin.

#crustmas

Interested in the marbled crayfish, an emerging global invader? We examined how their feeding efficiency is affected by temperature & reproduction. Projected climate warming will reduce feeding rate and increase the frequency & duration of gravid states. #Crustmas
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

sorry comment spam, haha! I got them!!

ohhh sorry I see it's not avail on itch ;v;

is in the jaws of an oak not available anymore? I wanted to get all 3 ;v;

Meet the carrier crab, an animal that brings its defence wherever it goes. Its back legs are specially adapted to hold anything it can wedge between itself and danger: a bit of dead coral, seaweed, a broken shell. Sometimes, though, that shield is alive – like this jellyfish! 🛡️🪼👇

🎥: Jacob Guy

today's study~

“This research is important for the conservation and Management of Sharks”: A proposed framework for ensuring that this is actually true Many scientists want their research to inform policy and help manage endangered species, but many common research practices hinder potential policy relevance. The results of our survey provide advice...

I am excited to share with you a new paper, probably my last of 2025. @drcatmac.bsky.social is a coauthor.

Our paper presents advice for early career shark scientists who want their work to be useful for conservation and management policy.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🦑🌍🦈

This digital painting is set on a rocky ocean shore. The sky is dark and stormy. The environment is very cool and blue. A girl with black and white hair, wearing a spotted dark-purple cloak, is summoning sparkling, ghostly whales and sea creatures from the ocean. She stands on a rock, lit by the yellow sparkling creatures above.

Freeing the Spirits of the Sea

🕹️ 5 games to get to know you 🎮

☕ Persona 5
🗡️ Hades
🌊 Wuthering Waves
⚜️ Bravely Default
🎃 Little Nightmares

A digital illustration of the plush shark Blahaj, sticking out of a bag that is shaped like the iconic ikea bags, but patterned like the transgender flag, on a pink background. „Coming out” is handwritten underneath.

Blahaj is coming out of this pretty bag to wish you a good Trans Awareness Week. ✨🦈🏳️‍⚧️

#art #cuteart #transawarenessmonth

Jashn-E-Bahaaraa

#kaveh #alhaitham #haikaveh

Leftover sales of Vasileia: Haikaveh Fantasy AU zine is going on! Link to the shop is below~

A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.

A fun finale for the #nudivember festivities! Isn't it pretty? And it does look just like it has a leaf for a cape!
Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back.
#SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters

Seahorses of the Philippines by @DearToOurHearts — Inspired by Iconic Fishes 🎨 We’re so excited to share this beautiful collaboration inspired by our #IconicFishes from the Philippines! 🇵🇭💛 Kathleen ( @DearToOurHearts) , a local artist, partnered with our colleagues at the Ph...

🎨 Excited to share this beautiful collaboration inspired by #IconicFishes from the Philippines! 🇵🇭

Artist Kathleen created this stunning work, now being used by at the Philippine Seahorse Program to support seahorse conservation efforts.

🔗 www.iconicfishes.art/updates/seah...

I think these are lil mottled stars ✴️

Leather star!! 🌟

The famous Pisaster or Ochre sea star ✴️

Purple versions of Pisaster ✴️🟣

Tidepool posting~ 🌟
stargazing 𓇼 ⋆.˚ ✴️ ⋆.˚ 𓇼
Seeing stars in the wild is so much cooler and mystical than at the aquarium 🌌

#tidepooling #marinelife #seastar #starfish

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:

Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) 🐳
Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) 🎏
Dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) 🐎
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) 🦈
Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) 🦭

Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨

3/3: From Tacoma to the tropics: this is conservation in action.
💙 pdza.org/zebra-shark-pup-hatches-in-indonesia

📸: Photos from Mardia Sultan - RARCC/ReShark

2/3: Local “shark nannies” are now caring for Jelly with minimal human conditioning. Once she’s grown, she’ll be tagged and released into the protected waters of Raja Ampat as part of the StAR (Stegostoma tigrinum Augmentation and Recovery) Project.

1/3: Help us welcome Jelly to the world — a newly hatched endangered zebra shark pup in Indonesia! 🦈💙

Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.

Blue stout coastal shrimp

Stout coastal shrimp with stripe down its back

Stout coastal shrimp with stripes throughout its body

Tidepool posting~ 🦐
scrimpin'~ I think these are all different morphs of the stout coastal shrimp? Which is super cool! ~

#tidepooling #marinelife #shrimp

Fire Urchin (Asthenosoma varium) Fire Urchin from Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia on April 23, 2013 at 10:25 AM by caleidoskopable. observation is for the sea urchin where the shrimps are on - not for the shrimps

Shrimpies what live on FIRE URCHINS! Urchin is Asthenosoma varium.. spines are basically hypodermic needles! don't touch! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Red rock crab! 🦀

Hairy crab! We put it back, but it was too cool to not get a closer look.

I believe a yellow shore crab.

Another red rock crab with some lil critter decorations ~ 🐚

Tidepool posting~ 🦀
Crabs! I've never seen a hairy crab before, so that was exciting !! (specifically the species hairy crab) Crabs are so fun and cute and I did 2 projects on crabs this semester. Didn't think I was such a crab person.. :3c

#tidepooling #marinelife #crab

Scientists Capture First Photos of Living Ginkgo-Toothed Beaked Whales, Study Confirms the Historic Moment Researchers from the Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, and the U.S. military's Naval Information Warfare Center successfully found and photographed living ginkgo-toothed beaked whales ...

🎉 INCREDIBLE SIGHTING Scientists have captured the first-ever confirmed live photos of the elusive Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale!

This rare moment gives researchers an exciting new opportunity to learn more about these mysterious deep-sea animals. 🌊🐋 people.com/researchers-...

I think it's a green moonglow sea anemone out of water!

Painted anemone, also out of water~

I think this is also a green moonglow anemone and it has a lil mussel for a snack!

More moonglow anemones 🌙🌟

Tidepool posting~ 🫧
First time going to Sitka and tidepooling !! I grew up on white sandy beaches, so tidepooling just wasn't really a thing, but I'm excited to go more often~ Will post a few a day till they're gone, starting with sea anemones~ 🌊

#tidepooling #marinelife #seaanemone

Mock cover of the fictional magazine, ‘Sea Star,’ designed in the style of tabloids and celebrity magazines of the early 2000s. This December 2025 edition is headlined, ‘BEGGING TO BE NOTICED,’ overlaid atop a cutout of a giant pink sea star against a backdrop of eelgrass. The subheader reads “WHY echinoderms demand more paparazzi from human allies.” An additional text underneath reads “PLUS: CA’S Coolest Sea Stars Alive, 2025 limited edition spread!” next to a cut out of a bat star. In the side panel, three images are shown with text atop them. From top to bottom: A yellow juvenile sunflower star is shown with text describing its “Life-changing diagnosis!”; a woman holding a camera walks across a moody, misty tide pool, with a text overlay reading, “INSIDE: Fast and easy hacks to be a better friend to sea stars”; a purple sea urchin nestled amid eelgrass, with text overlay reading “Purple urchins: PR crisis for CA native.”

Mock inside page of the fictional magazine, ‘Sea Star,’ shows cutouts of various sea stars with two major text boxes. The first, an editor’s note, reads: “December marks the start of the Winter Solstice Sea Star Search. We want YOU to go out to the California coast and make observations of as many sea stars as you can—all month long! Don’t know what to look for? Swipe for a who’s who of California sea stars.” The second text box, titled “COVER STORY: Life-changing sea star diagnosis,” includes this text: “HUGE news in the world of Sunflower Sea Stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides)! In August, scientists revealed the cause for Sea Star Wasting Disease—a deadly condition that killed billions of sea stars up and down the North American Coast. Read more at bit.ly/3Lm7yO9.” An image of a sunflower star is included next to the text. The logo for the Solstice Sea Star Search campaign is included on the page.

BREAKING NEWS: California sea stars WANT you to photograph them, actually!

In our December cover story, we dive into Solstice Sea Star Search, a monthlong quest to document California’s sea stars.