A helluva chonk of a bristle worm! This is the larva of a polychaete from the genus Scolelepis and it was hard to miss! #marineplankton 🦑
Little n’ large. Polychaete larvae from my latest plankton sample. #marineplankton 🦑
Selkie Sunday 💙🦭🌕 📸 by Karl Ramsdell kellyjarviswriter.com/selkie-moon #selkiesunday #SelkieMoon #selkies #fairytale #folklore #debutnovella #seal #sealife #oceanphotography #maine
Seal decided no photos today. #seal #westerncape #oceanlife #southafrica #africa #wildlife #nature #photography #photographer #africananimals
We’ve made a new friend in the anchorage. He’s round, whiskered, and an excellent swimmer. 🐙📷 #marinelife #marine #ocean #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #britishcolumbia
Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend? 🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length. 🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!
Lots of nematodes in this week’s sample! There was a fair bit of loose seaweed in there, so that may be why? 🤔 #marineplankton 🦑
Salps, a clear, gelatinous ocean animal, use jet propulsion to glide through the water without leaving insight into how they move. With harmless green dye, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Sutherland was able to study salp locomotion at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama.
Cf. Antholoba, snail, sea cucumber (Cucumariidae?), & sea star. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 835 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife
The Sharp-Ear Enope #Squid is always a special find. This one was quite large (~2cm) and quite the performer! #sharpearenopesquid #enopesquid #🦑 #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug #marinelife
Between grains of sand. What gets me is the interest in the world around him, the responsiveness, even the curiosity of such a miniscule creature. A Holm's hermit, watching me watching him. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit
Happy Nonbinary Day and Shark Awareness Day from your neighborhood trans, agender, shark person :) I love learning about the sensory systems and mechanics of these amazing animals! 🦈 🐟 🦑 #sharks #sensory #neuromechanics #science #research #TransInStem #agender
Three little yellow jacks synchronous swim close to the Cam 🐥🐥🐥 #yellowjacks #jackfish #juvenile #slowmotion #upclose #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity
An unusual visitor, a scrawled cowfish, blows us kisses and gently backs away 😘✏️🐮🐟 #scrawledcowfish #cowfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #kisses #backaway #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
Throwback Thursday! Grey Seal in Chatham 11/17 #GreySeal #seals #MarineLife #seal #mammals #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #photography #chatham #CapeCod #ThowbackThursday 🦭🌿
Every time I see people getting inappropriately close to sea lions, I wonder if they’ve ever seen a shot of those teefers because… HELL nah 🦊🦑 from yesterday at La Jolla!
The legendary rainbow tripod fish ( #Bathypteroisphenax) eventually settles on the seabed and lives its life sitting on its fintips above the silty abyssal plane. In its larval form is is one of the most stunning fish we see on our #blackwater dives. #deepsea #marinelife
It's world Sea Lion Day. Here's a Galapagos Sea Lion that just seemed to be napping right underneath me. These are endemic to the Galapagos. They are considered endangered. They will come right up to people as they did many times to me. Once while sitting in a lounge chair at a pool. 🦑🌿🦭
Lydia annulipes eating a snail in Okinawa, Japan. 巻貝を食べるキバオウギガニです。沖縄本島にて。今日はカニオフ会です。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate
i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen
