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They pay me to talk about anatomy and biology, but these posts are mine. When I grow up, I want to live in Sea Base Alpha 🌊🐬🦈🐳🐟🦑🪸🐚🦀🐠🐙
🦖🦑🧪🦈New blog post! I wrote about a paper my student Addie Miller published a few years ago, all about the concentration of juvenile giant shark teeth in the Oligocene (25 myo) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina - a nursery for giant sharks. coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-nu...
these monopolies were hilariously corrupt as well, and they had few friends. henry huntington (of LA's red cars), or charles yerkes (of the chicago eleveated) were as detested as bezos and zuckerberg were today. 4/
"Key West Resort Utilities has been shooting its treated waste from Stock Island down into shallow wells. But the effluent isn’t staying where it’s put. It’s flowing out to the nearest waterway, which in a nice irony is known as “Safe Harbor.” floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/30/s...
Sweet samples shows sour truth: Sewage injected beneath Florida Key is bubbling back up • Florida Phoenix
There’s an old saying, one that’s often brought up when Florida men fire off their guns to celebrate New Year’s: What goes up must come down. Look out for those falling bullets, boys! But when it come...
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💯 believe. It is extremely difficult to get close enough to take a good pic and very easy to over estimate your control.
@noaa coverage of new #humpback #whale research Meet Me in the Middle: Humpback Whales Coordinate to Hunt Along the Seafloor share.google/VPJqLsGuC9dQ...
Meet Me in the Middle: Humpback Whales Coordinate to Hunt Along the Seafloor
New research reveals how humpback whales coordinate their movements and assume complementary roles while hunting sand lance along the Stellwagen Bank seafloor.
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joeymaier 🌊@joeymaier.bsky.social · 6d agoNew (July 2026) research in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology describes 🐋 #humpback #whales using cooperative hunting to feed on benthic sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New (July 2026) research in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology describes 🐋 #humpback #whales using cooperative hunting to feed on benthic sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Meet me in the middle: potential collaborative benthic hunting in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Cooperative hunting, in its numerous forms, has implications for animal cognition and social evolution. We used multi-sensor acoustic/video recording tags attached to free-swimming humpback whales (Me...
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"Most scuba divers believed they rarely touched reefs; underwater observers found more than 40% of contacts caused visible damage" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/most... be
Most scuba divers believed they rarely touched reefs; underwater observers found more than 40% of contacts caused visible damage - The Times of India
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On this week's episode of, @npr's Science Friday is airing an interview with #bluewhale expert @ashadevos.bsky.social. if you are interested in #whales, you should tune in.
#coralreef #elkhorn #coral #Florida Researchers from @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social are removing Elkhorn Coral samples from the Florida reef tract to protect it from bleaching apnews.com/article/cora...
Florida researchers bring endangered elkhorn coral ashore to protect them
University of Miami scientists are working to save an endangered coral species from extinction by bringing them ashore.
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“This destruction [of learning, research, and the life sciences] will take place most easily in an atmosphere of worn-out apathy and helplessness, so give them the opposite. Make it hard for these people, because if they get their way it’s for sure that they want to make it very, very hard on you.”
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2w ago@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2
Chile's seamounts are still damaged, decades after trawling ended - Oceanographic share.google/TTdjoxj6tbz8...
Chile's seamounts are still damaged, decades after trawling ended - Oceanographic
Study of Juan Fernández seamounts finds bottom trawling's damage to deep-sea coral ecosystems persists more than 25 years after fishing ends.
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Update: the #marineland #beluga have started arriving in #Texas www.cbsnews.com/news/marinel...
First beluga whales from Marineland arrive in Texas as international rescue effort gets underway
Two beluga whales settled into their new home at SeaWorld San Antonio this week following an international relocation mission from shuttered Canadian theme park Marineland.
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joeymaier 🌊@joeymaier.bsky.social · 4w agoFurther coverage of #marineland #orca being moved to USA SeaWorld San Antonio to help rescue 30 stranded beluga whales share.google/D215Kuz6HRn8...
"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths." "Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"
Helen Grant@helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2w ago
Provided that enforcement, funding and political will follow, the extinction crisis of sharks and rays has reached a new milestone, with two new national commitments to protect these species having been declared at the Our Ocean Conference, hosted last month in Kenya.
Historic sharks and rays commitments declared at Our Ocean - Oceanographic
Madagascar and Zanzibar have announced sweeping new national protections for sharks and rays at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa.
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Video of orca ramming sunfish hard enough that they are smashed into pieces 😮
#Whale #spermwhale #Dominica "We further show that in the presence of 〔ship noise〕, codas are shorter and more coda signals with a specific spectral pattern are vocalized.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Evidence for the influence of shipping underwater radiated noise on sperm whale coda structure
Shipping underwater radiated noise (S-URN) has been shown to harm whale populations, yet the mechanisms by which anthropogenic sounds interfere with w…
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#shark #research from Natural England's Species Recovery Programme will tag 75 #porbeagle, #tope and #bluesharks "Experts will also use ultrasound scanning to identify pregnant sharks and locate potential pupping and nursery grounds." share.google/eyGvNWvnpydB...
Shark scientists gets £1m to help protect them
Natural England's Species Recovery Programme will focus on the blue shark, porbeagle and tope.
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#Benin #mesophotic #coralreef Want some good news? An ROV (Qysea Fifish V-EVO) examining reefs in the 52- 56 m depth range off the coast of Benin, found them in better shape than was expected www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Frontiers | First evidence of live mesophotic coral reefs on the Benin continental shelf
Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCE) remain poorly documented along the West African coastline, particularly on the continental shelf of the Gulf of Guinea. Cor...
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Further coverage of the $USA's plan to auction off #deepseamining rights near #AmericanSamoa "The U.S. government has taken another definitive step toward launching a deep-sea mining industry, starting in the waters of American Samoa, despite public opposition" Auction to be held November 19th
joeymaier 🌊@joeymaier.bsky.social · 3w ago#deepseamining #USA "The U.S. government plans to auction off massive sections of water surrounding #AmericanSamoa for potential deep-sea mining in an unprecedented move...The proposed leasing notice was published on Friday..." share.google/dPkcxzmu9Mm4...
#shark #sharknursery #brazil #blacktip apnews.com/article/braz...
A Brazilian bay’s surprise shark nursery sparks conservation project
Scientists have discovered that a cove in Brazil's Ilha Grande bay is a nursery for pregnant blacktip sharks. This has led to conservation efforts to protect the area.
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This year's #SharkCon staff shirts feature a remora, fish that were recently described hiding from predators by swimming up the butts (aka "cloaca") of larger fish uisjournal.com/remoras-hide...
Commercial Fishing Restored In Pacific and Atlantic - Surfer share.google/NWsjaNTY2LtD...
Commercial Fishing Restored In Large Swaths of Pacific and Atlantic
The current U.S. administration is opening up hundreds of thousands of miles of previously protected water for the fishing industry.
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Recreational Chinook Salmon fishing returns to Sacramento River after multi-year closure
Anglers gathered at the Oroville Wildlife Area on Thursday morning to celebrate the return of a full recreational salmon fishing season in the Sacramento River
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#Fishing #salmon #ColumbiaRiver Northwest gains support in fight over salmon hatchery funding | National Fisherman share.google/CZTC7WWy4QWR...
Northwest gains support in fight over salmon hatchery funding
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#SeaTurtles #green #SeaWorld SeaWorld Orlando returns 9 rehabilitated green sea turtles to Atlantic Ocean share.google/A1yQ661FaXt0...
SeaWorld Orlando returns 9 rehabilitated green sea turtles to Atlantic Ocean
The turtles were among dozens the SeaWorld Orlando Rescue Team rescued following an unusually cold Florida winter that left many suffering from cold stress and severe malnutrition.
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#deepseamining #USA "The U.S. government plans to auction off massive sections of water surrounding #AmericanSamoa for potential deep-sea mining in an unprecedented move...The proposed leasing notice was published on Friday..." share.google/dPkcxzmu9Mm4...
The US plans to auction off sections of water around American Samoa in a push for deep-sea mining
The U.S. government is planning to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.
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