Looks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

A crab on the move from our Monday night shore dive in NJ. Big boy was on the move 🦀🤿🦑🐙

A horseshoe crab from last night's shore dive in NJ. Ive never noticed how red the feets of a horseshoe crab can be! 72°F, 20+ft of viz, 55min dive 🐙🦑🐟🐠🤿🦀

It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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So grateful for the opportunity to dive the wrecks of Chuuk, Lagoon last week. 🦑🤿🐟🐠🐙

Some fishy bait ball soup from the wreck of the Spar off Morehead City in NC last weekend 🦑🐙🐟🐠🤿

Drove to NC over the weekend to get some warmup dives in as the season kicks off. This is from the wreck of the Aeolus in 110ft of water. On the breather, the fish just seem to ignore me! It's really incredible 🦈🤿🦑

Saw this guy from the parking lot. He was upside down and I was afraid he was dead but i went to flip him anyway Picked him up and he moved! Even better, he has a tag! Horseshoe crabs might look dangerous but they're completely harmless with no way to hurt you even if they wanted to 🦑🐙🦀

Do you like the ocean? Wildlife? Oceans? Please add your voice to the opposition against tripling the catch limits on many species of Atlantic sharks in the US. We only have 10 days fishdefender.org/NOAAcomments...

NOAA comments - fishdefender.org

Raise your voice for US sharks. Under pressure from fishing industry claims that sharks have become 'overpopulated', NOAA Fisheries has proposed multiplying the daily limit of Atlantic sharks recreati...

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Cave diving can be incredible but even the most experienced tech divers I know have a healthy respect for the skills it takes to do it and come home alive.

Louis Redux@louisredux.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The way the divers and their behaviour is described is, I hope, inaccurate because otherwise this was a very cavalier/irresponsible set of behaviours. Diving into an unknown (or at least unknown to you) cave is highly dangerous. It's not something any diver should contemplate without training.

One of my favorite new to me fishes! I love their smokey black eyeliner and their stripey baby outfits

Kelley Whitley@kelleywelley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

100 Days of Reef Fish Transformer fish 8/10: watercolor paintings of juvenile and adult Midnight Snapper, Macolor macularis. A beautiful baby transforms into a handsome, but totally differently shaped adult. #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #dothe100daysproject

Something isn't right here

BBQ chicken leg from a huge smoker outside the St Pete Times rink before a Bolts game. Honorable mentions: full size NJD plastic helmet full of popcorn, smoked meat poutine at The Bell Centre

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

what is the best sports event snack u ever ate bonus if it was served in a little plastic helmet with the team logo but it is not a requirement

I don't know why but images from space like this always leave me in tears. It also doesn't fail to leave me utterly go smacked that this is being live streamed. #artemisII

Hey Blinky! You're so fine! You're so fine you blow my mind! Hey Blinky!

Tim Ellis 🍁@djdynamic.ca · 4mo ago

This applies to all pets: dogs, cats, lizards, fish, children, you name it

I've only ever spotted one frogfish during a dive. I'm sure I've "seen" loads and thought they were just part of the reef. Love these weirdos!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae. They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS. Most walk on modified fins. Others use jet propulsion. Some are capable of air-breathing. Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.

I think I need a fact check on the not so fun fact

Biblically accurate angel

This is one of the reasons I tell my dentist all about my diving and dive trips 😱

Sarah Hörst@planetdr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My dentist was a Naval dentist for many years. Ystday while looking at my xrays she points at something Her: that’s an air bubble Me: 😮 Her: nothing to worry about Me: 😀 Her: unless you are a Naval diver Me: *doing physics in my head* 😮 Her: 🤓 Me: IMPLODING TEETH?!? Her: imploding teeth Me: 🤯

Aliens are here and they live in the ocean. It has been too long since my last blackwater dive!

Chris Gug@gugunderwater.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish. Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa. #larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

Gull just doing gull things at the ferry terminal this morning. Going on the reactions from the staff, he is a regular

Seascapes from Salt Pier, Bonaire 🦑🪸🤿🐟

Critters big and small from Bonaire. I have no idea what the bright ruddy orange guy is- I just thought he was cute 🦑🐙🐟🤿

Some enchanting garden eels in 115 ft of water, Bonaire 🐙🪸🦑🤿🐟

I wish I could reread this book for the first time. Excited!

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 6mo ago

Project Hail Mary (March 20): Final trailer Very good trailer for what promises to be a great sci-fi movie, but beware, it reveals a lot about the story and, above all, shows a lot of Rocky. ☝️

I've said it before and I'll say it again- football has the best names

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 8mo ago

If this is from the Spiegel Grove, I think I met this grouper back in Dec during CCR Mod certification 🦑🤿🐟

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's hard to grasp how large this grouper is until you see it in comparison to the ship's toilet on the left. This appears to be an Atlantic goliath grouper or 'itajara' (Epinephelus itajara). They can reach 800 lbs (350 kg) & 8 feet long (2.5 m) Let's talk about these gentle giants.

And here I am with only a mini panther to pet

Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs@ashponders.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

@greenleejw.bsky.social I got excited about your @ name but then read your description about being a surprised historian, not a surprised eel. Every time I see an eel, I hear them say "Surprise!" and for a moment thought I was no longer alone 😭